LEADER 04677nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910452409703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89897-7 010 $a0-8122-0455-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812204551 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104582 035 $a(OCoLC)802048883 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576133 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000751782 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11393038 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000751782 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10771572 035 $a(PQKB)10249525 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441692 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18729 035 $a(DE-B1597)449536 035 $a(OCoLC)979740934 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812204551 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441692 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576133 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421147 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104582 100 $a20000928d2001 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSpiritual economies$b[electronic resource] $efemale monasticism in later medieval England /$fNancy Bradley Warren 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-3583-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-258) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tPART I. Monastic Identities in Theory and Practice -- $t1. Vows and Visitations -- $t2. The Value of the Mother Tongue -- $t3. Accounting for Themselves -- $tPART II. Beyond the Convent -- $t4. A Coin of Changing Value -- $t5. Kings, Saints, and Nuns -- $t6. Liabilities and Assets -- $t7. Paying the Price -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aFrom its creation in the early fourteenth century to its dissolution in the sixteenth, the nunnery at Dartford was among the richest in England. Although obliged to support not only its own community but also a priory of Dominican friars at King's Langley, Dartford prospered. Records attest to the business skill of the Dartford nuns, as they managed the house's numerous holdings of land and property, together with the rents and services owed them. That the Dartford nuns were capable businesswomen is not surprising, since the house was also a center of female education.For Nancy Bradley Warren, the story of Dartford exemplifies the vibrancy of nuns' material and spiritual lives in later medieval England. Revising the long-held view that fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English nunneries were impoverished both financially and religiously, Warren clarifies that the women in female monastic communities like Dartford were not woefully incompetent at managing their affairs. Instead, she reveals the complex role of female monasticism in diverse systems of production and exchange. Like the nuns at Dartford, women religious in late medieval England were enmeshed in material, symbolic, political, and spiritual economies that were at times in harmony and at other times in conflict with each other.Building on emerging cross-disciplinary trends in feminist scholarship on medieval religion, Warren extends ongoing debates about textual and economic constructions of women's identities to the rarely considered evidence of monastic theory and practice. To this end, Spiritual Economies emphasizes that the cloister was not impermeable. As worldly forces such as economic trends and political conflicts affected life in the nunneries, so too did religious practices have political impact. In breaking down the convent wall, Warren also succeeds in breaching the boundaries separating the material and the symbolic, the religious and the secular, the literary and the historical. She turns to a wide range of sources-from legislative texts, court records, and financial accounts to devotional treatises and political propaganda-to explore the centrality of female monasticism to the flowering of female spirituality and to the later Middle Ages at large. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aMonasticism and religious orders for women$zEngland$xHistory$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 607 $aEngland$xChurch history$y1066-1485 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMonasticism and religious orders for women$xHistory 676 $a271/.90042/0902 700 $aWarren$b Nancy Bradley$0922706 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452409703321 996 $aSpiritual economies$92487427 997 $aUNINA LEADER 00805nam a2200241 i 4500 001 991001890439707536 005 20020503154636.0 008 010315s1969 fr ||| | fre 035 $ab10287152-39ule_inst 035 $aEXGIL93180$9ExL 040 $aBiblioteca Interfacoltà$bita 082 0 $a111.1 100 1 $aWeil, Simone$0159196 245 10$aAttente de Dieu /$cSimone Weil ; préface de J.M. Perrin 260 $a[Paris] :$bFayard,$c1969 300 $a256 p. ;$c20 cm. 650 4$aDio 907 $a.b10287152$b02-04-14$c27-06-02 912 $a991001890439707536 945 $aLE002 Fil. XV M 21$g1$i2002000547712$lle002$o-$pE0.00$q-$rl$s- $t0$u0$v0$w0$x0$y.i10339784$z27-06-02 996 $aAttente de Dieu$948226 997 $aUNISALENTO 998 $ale002$b01-01-01$cm$da $e-$ffre$gfr $h0$i1