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BEYOND THE RULE OF SAINT BENEDICT: IMPOSITION OF CISTERCIAN CUSTOMS AND ENCLOSURE ON NUNS IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES1

Jul 01, 2007; Berman, Constance ... (Written in homage to the late Bernadette Barrière) Nearly eighty percent of all Cistercian women's houses in what is today France survived the challenges of fourteenth and fifteenth century currency debasement, famine, plague, and invasions to exist, like the order's men's houses, right ...

WISDOM'S VOICE AND WOMEN'S SPEECH: HROTSWITHA OF GANDERSHEIM, HILDEGARD OF BINGEN, AND REBECCA COX JACKSON

Jul 01, 2007; Schroeder, Joy ... Wisdom cries out in the street; in the squares she raises her voice. At the busiest corner she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks: "How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge? Give heed to my ...

CLARE OF ASSISI AND THE POWER OF THE CROSS

Jul 01, 2007; Flanagan, Eileen ... Documents written by and about Clare of Assisi describe the meaning of the cross in the spirituality attributed to her. Keeping before herself the witness of the crucified was integral to Clare's spirituality.1 Accounting for differing emphases on the function of the cross in Clare's ...

CLARE, HUMAN EMBODIMENT, AND ESPOUSAL OF THE POOR CHRIST1

Jul 01, 2007; Blastic, Michael W ... he intention of this essay is to demonstrate the coincidence of the experience of espousal of Christ as developed in Clare's Letters to Agnes of Prague, with the description of the lived human experience of the sisters in San Damiano, as presented in the Forma vitae sororum pauperum in terms of ...

Spirituality, Gender and the Self in Renaissance Italy: Angela Merici and the Company of St. Ursula (1474-1540)

Jul 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Querciolo Mazzonis. Spirituality, Gender and the Self in Renaissance Italy: Angela Merici and the Company of St. Ursula (1474-1540) (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2007) 247 pages, paperback, $35.95, ISBN 978-0-8132-1490-0. Angela Merici is well known in the history of ...

Hildegard of Bingen: A Spiritual Reader

Jul 01, 2007; Anonymous ... Hildegard of Bingen: A Spiritual Reader, translated and compiled by Carmen Acevedo Butcher (Brewster, Mass.: Paraclete Press, 2006) 183 pages, paperback, $16.95, ISBN 978-1-55725-490-0. Another pop version of Hildegard? Yes, and this one is definitely a sampler version. Butcher has ...