A01=Sister Bartolomea Riccoboni
asceticism
Author_Sister Bartolomea Riccoboni
biography
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catholicism
charity
christianity
chronicle
church history
cloister
community
convent
corpus domini
council of constance
devotion
dominican
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gender
great western schism
necrology
nonfiction
nunnery
nuns
prophecy
religion
seclusion
second order perpetual adoration
spirituality
venice
visions
widows
women
work
worship
Product details
- ISBN 9780226717890
- Weight: 227g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2000
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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These works by Sister Bartolomea Riccoboni offer an intimate portrait of the women who inhabited the venetian convent of Corpus Domini, where they shared a religious life bounded physically by the convent walls and organized temporally by the rhythms of work and worship. At the same time, they show how this cloistered community vibrated with news of the great ecclesiastical events of the day, such as the Great Western Schism and the Council of Constance. While the chronicle recounts the history of the nuns' collective life, the necrology provides highly individualized biographies of nearly 50 women who died in the convent between 1395 and 1436. We follow the fascinating stories that led these women, from adolescent girls to elderly widows, to join the convent; and we learn of their cultural backgrounds and intellectual accomplishments, their ascetic practices and mystical visions, their charity and devotion to each other, and their fortitude in the face of illness and death. FDEThe personal and social meaning of religious devotion comes alive in these texts, the first of their kind to be translated into English.
