Monastic Women Religious Orders Late Medieval Bologna 9781107639706 Cond=LN:NSD

Monastic Women Religious Orders Late Medieval Bologna 9781107639706 Cond=LN:NSD

Monastic Women and Religious Orders in Late Medieval BolognaAuthor(s): Sherri Franks Johnson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107639706, 978-1107639706\nSynopsis\nSherri Franks Johnson explores the roles of religious women in the changing ecclesiastical and civic structure of late medieval Bologna, demonstrating how convents negotiated a place in their urban context and in the church at large. During this period Bologna was the most important city in the Papal States after Rome. Using archival records from nunneries in the city, Johnson argues that communities of religious women varied in the extent to which they sought official recognition from the male authorities of religious orders. While some nunneries felt that it was important to their religious life to gain recognition from monks and friars, others were content to remain local and autonomous. In a period often described as an era of de.

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