Monastic Women and Religious Orders in Late Medieval Bologna

Sherri Franks Johnson
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 1st ed, 2014-04-10
EAN 9781107060852, ISBN10: 1107060850

Hardcover, 271 pages, 22.6 x 14.7 x 2.5 cm
Language: English

'Sherri Franks Johnson's extraordinary picture of women's religious communities in Bologna is based on a painstaking study of archival sources. Her analysis of more than thirty such communities of monastic women in the later Middle Ages contradicts what was until recently a dismal assessment of women's monastic lives after the Gregorian Reform, but also sheds new light on the mendicant orders.' Constance H. Berman, University of Iowa