Guidance for Women in Twelfth-Century ConventsVera Petch Morton DS Brewer, 2012 - 213 من الصفحات Collection of letters and texts offering guidance for nuns, and including selections from Abelard's letters to Heloise. These translated letters and texts composed for younger and older women in twelfth-century convents illuminate the powerful medieval ideals of virginity and chastity. Abelard's history of women's roles in the church and his letteron women's education, both written for Heloise in her work as abbess, are seen here alongside previously untranslated letters and texts for abbesses and nuns in England and France. An interpretive essay explores the practical and spiritual engagement of women's convents with medieval commemorative and memorial practices, showing that the professional concern of women religious with death goes far beyond the stereotype of nuns as dead to the world, or enclosed in living death. VERA MORTON gained an MA in Medieval Studies at the University of Liverpool in 1994. JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE is Professor of English at Fordham University, NY. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Note on Texts and the Translations | 13 |
I Osbert of Clare Prior of Westminster to Adelidis Abbess of Barking | 15 |
II Abelard to Heloise | 50 |
III Peter the Venerable to his Nieces Margaret and Pontia | 96 |
IV Osbert of Clare to his Nieces Margaret and Cecilia in Barking Abbey | 109 |
V Abelard to Heloise | 121 |
VI Goscelin of St Bertin | 139 |
Interpretive Essay | 157 |
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Backcover | 205 |