Medieval religious women in the Low Countries : the "modern devotion", the Canonesses of Windesheim, and their writings / Wybren Scheepsma ; translated from the Dutch by David F. Johnson
Published
Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell Press, 2004
Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Aspects of Life in the Convent; 3 Communal Devotion and Piety; 4 Living with Texts; 5 Written Instructions; 6 Devout Biography and Historiography; 7 Two Spiritual Friends from Facons; 8 Alijt Bake a Woman with a Mission; 9 Literature and the Choir Nuns of Windesheim; Bibliography; Index
Summary
In the last decades of the fourteenth century a new religious movement arose in the Northern Low Countries, that came to be known as the Modern Devotion. It became to influence religious life in a great part of Europe very thoroughly, especially in the fifteenth century
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-270) and index
