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| ISBN: | 9781107732285
110773228X
9781107447646
110744764X
1306683866
9781306683869
9781107060852
1107060850
1107721237
9781107721234
1107723523
9781107723528
1107728177
9781107728172
1107724163
9781107724167
1107730538
9781107730533
1107728770
9781107728776
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Sherri 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 decline and the marginalization of religious women, Johnson shows instead that they saw themselves as active participants in their religious orders, in the wider church and in their local communities.
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| Other form: | Print version: Franks Johnson, Sherri, 1970- Monastic women and religious orders in late medieval Bologna 9781107060852
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