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Spatmittelalterliche Frauenfrommigkeit Am Niederrhein

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English summary: At the end of the 14 century, the reform movement of the late medieval church, known as the devotio moderna , originated in the IJssel valley. Due to the history of their development, their contacts and their book culture, women's convents in Geldern and Sonsbeck were exemplary of the female sector in the 15th century. Whereas the Geldern convent took up the monastic life quite soon, St. Andreas in Sonsbeck gradually developed from its beginnings as a Beguines' house into a tertiaries' convent with a monastic life. In both convents, manuscripts were created which gave the ideal of piety its own expression by collecting and presenting religious literature in the vernacular. Monika Costard examines this evidence of book culture in women's convents, evidence which had received little attention up to now. There is an exceptional number of manuscripts from Geldern, and these are compiled and described in this book for the first time.


German description: Ende des 14. Jahrhunderts entstand im Ijsseltal die als devotio moderna bezeichnete Reformbewegung der spatmittelalterlichen Kirche. Frauenkonvente in Geldern und Sonsbeck zeigen uber ihre Entwicklungsgeschichte, ihre Kontakte und ihre Buchkultur exemplarisch Auspragungen des weiblichen Zweigs im 15. Jahrhundert. Wahrend der Gelderner Konvent schon bald zum monastischen Leben uberging, entwickelte sich St. Andreas in Sonsbeck schrittweise aus Anfangen als Beginenhaus zum Tertiarinnenkonvent mit klosterlichem Leben. In beiden Konventen wurden Handschriften angelegt, die uber die Sammlung und Prasentation geistlicher Texte in der Volkssprache dem Frommigkeitsideal einen eigenen Ausdruck gaben. Monika Costard untersucht diese bisher wenig beachteten Zeugnisse der Buchkultur der Frauenkonvente. Aussergewohnlich zahlreich sind Handschriften aus Geldern erhalten, die sie erstmals zusammenstellt und beschreibt.

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ISBN: 9783161502002
Publication date: 11th November 2011
Author: Ino Augsberg
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 764 pages
Series: Spatmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation / Studies in the Late Middle Ages, Humanism and the Reformation
Genres: History of religion
Christianity