Paradoxes of Gender in Elderly Care: The Case of Men as Care Workers in Sweden
NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, Volume 20, Issue 3, Page 166-181, September 2012.
Archiv für September 2012
Volume 42 Index
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Gender, the State, and Episcopal Authority: Hernando de Talavera and Richard Fox on Female Monastic Reform
This article compares the work of two late medieval bishops and the guidelines each produced for convents. In the late fifteenth century, Talavera (1430–1507), bishop of Avila in Spain, wrote a treatise addressed to the Cistercian nuns of the ci…
New Books across the Disciplines
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Roving Nuns and Cistercian Realities: The Cloistering of Religious Women in the Thirteenth Century
This article uses evidence from Cistercian abbeys in Flanders and Hainaut during the thirteenth century to reconsider the role of enclosure policies in shaping the experience of religious women. The frequency with which nuns appear in the charters out…
Innovation and Spiritual Value in Medieval Monastic Art: The Case of the Main Narthex Portal at Vezelay
This essay explores the peculiar character of innovation in monastic art around 1100 CE, and what specially monastic concerns may have motivated this underacknowledged thirst for invention. It focuses on the relationship between the main portal at the…
Rekindling the Light of Faith: Hymn Translation and Spiritual Renewal in the Fifteenth-Century Observant Reform
This essay explores how the performance of the liturgy was integrated into late medieval education of nuns, for whom liturgical text conveyed both linguistic and spiritual knowledge. In southern German Observant Dominican convents, Latin language was …
Monasticisms Medieval and Early Modern
The very word monasticism brings to mind images of walls and enclosures, suggests qualities of isolation and separation. As recent work on both medieval and early modern monastic foundations has demonstrated, though, the convent wall was actually quit…
"So short a space of time": Early Modern Convent Chronology and Carmelite Spirituality
The representation of time in early modern spiritual self-writing has received little critical attention. This essay seeks to redress that neglect. It focuses on the conception of time in the writings of Carmelite nuns, considering English women&rsquo…
Monasticism and the Public Contemplative in Late Medieval England: Richard Methley and His Spiritual Formation
This essay explores the late medieval rhetoric of self-representation and conceptions of audience through an examination of the writings of the fifteenth-century Carthusian monk Richard Methley. Methley is considered as a „public contemplative“ &mdash…