1st Edition
Hospitaller Women in the Middle Ages
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume brings together recent and new research, with several items specially translated into English, on the sisters of the largest and most long-lived of the military-religious orders, the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. In recent years there has been increasing scholarly interest in women's religious houses during the Middle Ages, with particular focus on the problems which they faced and... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction: A survey of Hospitaller women in the Middle Ages, Anthony Luttrell and Helen J. Nicholson; Women and the military orders in the 12th and 13th centuries, Alan Forey; Men and women of the Hospitaller, Templar and Teutonic Orders: 12th to 14th centuries, Francesco Tommasi; The sisters of the Order of St John at Mynchin Buckland, Myra Struckmeyer; The Aragonese Hospitaller monastery of Sigena: its early stages, 1188-c.1210, Luis GarcÃa-Guijarro Ramos; Margaret de Lacy and the Hospital of St John at Aconbury, Herefordshire, Helen J. Nicholson; The Hospitaller sisters in Frisia, Johannes A. Mol; Fleur de Beaulieu (d. 1347), Saint of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, Pauline L'Hermite-Leclercq; The female monastery of San Bevignate at Perugia: 1325-c.1507, Francesco Tommasi; Index of names and places.
Biography
Anthony Luttrell is an Independent Scholar. Helen J. Nicholson is Professor of Medieval History at Cardiff University, UK.
’... this important and wide-ranging collection of essays.’ English Historical Review ’This volume is a valuable contribution to the history of religious orders in the Middle Ages and to gender studies.’ Church History
