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Pernicious Sort of Woman
Quasi-religious Women and Canon Lawyers in the Later Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2005
685 kr
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Whether they were secular canonesses or beguines, tertiaries or Sisters of the Common Life, quasi-religious women in the later Middle Ages lived their lives against a backdrop of struggle and insecurity resulting, in large measure, from their ambivalent legal status. Because they lacked one or more …
Apostate Nuns in the Later Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2019
1245 kr
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A study of women who left their nunneries: their motives and actions, and the consequences for them.To make a vow is a matter of the will, to fulfill one is a matter of necessity, declared late medieval canon law, and religious profession involved the most solemn of those vows. Professed nuns could …
English Nuns and the Law in the Middle Ages
Cloistered Nuns and Their Lawyers, 1293-1540
Inbunden, 2012
1234 kr
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Lawmen were crucial to the economic wellbeing of medieval nunneries; this book looks at the relationship between them and how cases were conducted.In late medieval England, cloistered nuns, like all substantial property owners, engaged in nearly constant litigation to defend their holdings. They …
