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Author Winston-Allen, Anne, 1942-

Title Convent chronicles : women writing about women and reform in the late Middle Ages / Anne Winston-Allen.

Publication Info. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2004]
©2004

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 Moore Stacks  PT255 .W56 2004    Available  ---
Description xvii, 345 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-338) and index.
Contents Women writing in the late Middle Ages -- Late medieval nunneries: accounts by women -- The "Women's Religious Movement" and the Observant movement: female piety and the establishment -- Women of the reform -- Opponents of the reform and enclosure -- Did nuns have a Renaissance? Libraries and literary activities -- "Femininity-in-writing": new heroines, strategies, and roles in late medieval piety.
Subject Christian literature, German -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Christian literature, German.
Women authors.
Christian literature, Dutch -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Christian literature, Dutch.
German literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Dutch literature -- 1500-1800 -- History and criticism.
Dutch literature.
Chronological Term 1500-1800
Subject Nuns as authors.
Nuns as authors.
Women and literature.
Women and literature.
Reformation -- Germany.
Reformation.
Germany.
Reformation -- Netherlands.
Netherlands.
ISBN 0271024607 clothbound alkaline paper