| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
The New Middle Ages |
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New Middle Ages (Palgrave (Firm))
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| Contents |
1. Setting the Stage -- 2. Mine's Taller: On Steeple Distortions in City Depictions -- 3. Mental Topography and the Viennese Medieval Past -- 4. Foundation Stories: The Heroes of Viennese Monasticism -- 5. Virgin Intercessor and Other Monastic Miracles -- 6. The Persistence of the Medieval -- Appendix 1: Views of Vienna: Selected Panoramas, Plans, and Pictorial Reports -- Appendix 2: Vienna in Prose: Selected Histories, Topographies, and Travelogues |
| Summary |
This study examines the post-medieval reception of Vienna's women's monastic institutions as historical icons of the medieval past. Over time, the eight major women's convents of Vienna become linked in the popular mind with the broader mythology of "Alt-Wien," the old Vienna. Accounts of the city in geographical materials of the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries - maps and panoramas, topographies, travel literature, and Vienna-centric folktale collections - frequently allude to the convents' former identities at the expense of their ongoing presence as active female religious establishments. By teasing out the way people think about the physical and historical place such women's institutions held in this important urban and political center, Received Medievalisms provides a new picture of the ways in which the medieval shapes later understandings of women's role and agency within the city |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Monastic and religious life of women -- Austria -- Vienna
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Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Austria -- Vienna
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RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
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Monastic and religious life of women
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Monasticism and religious orders for women
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| SUBJECT |
Vienna (Austria) -- Church history
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Vienna (Austria) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143231
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| Subject |
Austria -- Vienna
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230393585 |
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0230393586 |
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1299717551 |
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9781299717558 |
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9780230393578 |
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0230393578 |
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9781349352333 |
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1349352330 |
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