Speaking Internationally in Female Communities on the Eastern Boarders of Medieval Europe

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Speaking Internationally in Female Communities on the Eastern Boarders of Medieval Europe

Original language description

This essays focuses on the role of female religious communities in the Bohemian Kingdom, focusing particularly on the model cases of some influential and significant ones. Manuscripts written in the vernacular constitute the primary sources for this study, which also offers a detailed examination of the general development of vernacular texts and manuscripts in the region. It is also indebted to all those hitherto underestimated and underexamined female religious communities in this territory that have long stood in the shadows of their counterparts elsewhere. It therefore aims to give them into the stream of current research on wider European female communities, in order to help them 'speak internationally'. The abbesses of medieval women's convents in the Czech lands were educated women who were able to read even more sophisticated latin texts. Although their reading activities did not reach such dimensions as their male companions, they nevertheless had a wide-ranging. The abbesses were not only passive readers, but also active orders of many magnificent manuscripts. Most often, liturgical books necessary for spiritual practice are represented among the manuscripts. Many of them are visually interesting. In addition, the abbesses ordered books with texts by ecclesiastical authors and popular theologians and philosophers. Books of hours and passionals gained considerable popularity. For the abbesses, books were not just an empty symbol, but a real source of knowledge and deepened spirituality.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages

ISBN

978-1-84384-656-7

Number of pages of the result

16

Pages from-to

193-208

Number of pages of the book

328

Publisher name

Boydell & Brewer

Place of publication

Suffolk

UT code for WoS chapter

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