Woman under Monasticism
Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500
Woman under Monasticism, published in 1896 by Lina Eckenstein, surveys the convent life of women in western Europe between 500 and 1500 and the saint-lore that grew up around it. Eckenstein begins at the borderland of heathendom, where tribal goddesses became Christian saints, and follows the early houses of Frankish Gaul and Saxon England, St. Radegund at Poitiers, Hilda at Whitby, the correspondents of Boniface, Hrotsvith of Gandersheim and her plays, the new orders of the twelfth century, the art and learning of Herrad of Landsberg and Hildegard of Bingen, the mystics of Helfta, the daily arrangements of a nunnery, episcopal visitations and reforms, and the dissolution in England and Germany, closing with the memoir of Charitas Pirckheimer. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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Yes. Woman under Monasticism by Lina Eckenstein is a public-domain work. Vinteuil offers a carefully prepared digital edition made for comfortable reading on screen.
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What kind of book is Woman under Monasticism?
Woman under Monasticism by Lina Eckenstein is filed under "History" in the Vinteuil library.
