Penitents and the institutionalization of penitential life in the thirteenth century -- After supra montem -- The Western schism, observant reform, and institutionalization -- Creating a textual identity? Pastroalia and models of tertiary life -- Order and idetntity in women's communities -- Unification and regularization in the sixteenth-century spiritual climate
Summary
Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities traces the story of pious laywomen in Europe from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, examining the ways these women were active and engaged in their social and intellectual worlds, while also tracing the formation of modern perceptions about gender roles and the reasons why they persisted
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 05, 2018)