Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 19612
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Brolis , Maria Teresa.
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  • Title: Un monastero assalito dagli uomini, ignorato dagli storici e ricostruito dalla monache: Santa Maria di Valmarina presso Bergamo (secoli XII-XV) [The twelfth century saw contemporaneous development of monastic and civic institutions in Bergamo and its vicinity. Santa Maria di Valmarina was founded outside Bergamo in the twelfth century as a monastery for nuns. It was patronized by the city's elite, but it suffered in the upheavals of the fourteenth century. Finally, the nuns were forced to relocate inside the city. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Chiesa, vita religiosa, societa nel Medioevo italiano: Studi offerti a Giuseppina De Sandre Gasparini.  Edited by Mariaclara Rossi and Gian Maria Varanini.  Herder, 2005.  Pages 121 - 137.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Abbesses Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy- Santa Maria di Valmarina, a Women's Monastery Monasticism Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 12- 13- 14- 15
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  • Year of Publication: 2005.
  • Language: Italian
  • ISSN/ISBN: 8889670061