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ascetic practices
Author_Julie Ann Smith
Bede II
Benedict Biscop
benedictine
Benedictine Rule
canon law women
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Conciliar Canons
Dedicated Virgins
Double Monasteries
Earlier Penitentials
early
Early Medieval
early medieval Christianity
Early Medieval Penitentials
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female monasticism
Female Monastics
gendered penance
houses
Illicit Sexual Intercourse
Lectio Divina
medieval
Monastic Life
Monastic Space
nunnery
Nunnery Rules
Opus Dei
penitential
Penitential Handbook
Penitential Texts
Penitential Writings
pre-Christian Practices
religious
religious enclosure
Religious Women
rules
sexuality and church regulation
texts
Theodoran Text
Women's Religious Communities
Women's Religious Houses
womens
Women’s Religious Communities
Women’s Religious Houses
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138272323
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book takes an innovative approach to the study of the penitentials and nunnery rules and the ways in which these texts impinged upon the lives of female audiences. The study emphasises the importance of the texts for the promotion of Christian values and of the expectations of churchmen in the construction of appropriate Christian behaviour for women in the early medieval West. These texts constitute the only written works which would have had direct influence upon the lives of lay and religious women. The work focuses upon the elements of the penitentials which provided female-specific expectations, and these fall largely into two categories of sexuality and pre-Christian practices. The nunnery rules seldom provided comprehensive sets of behavioural expectations. Rather, rules emphasised expectations relating to issues of enclosure, work and abstinence which came to be perceived as the defining characteristics of religious women.
