Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 21603
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Goldfrank , David M.
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  • Title: Sisterhood Just Might be Powerful: The Testament-Rule of Elena Devochkina [A testament-rule survives for the women’s monastery of Novodevichi in Moscow. It was written by the monastery’s superior, Elena Devochkina, around the middle of the sixteenth century. Goldfrank argues that Devochkina’s rule for her nuns is unusual in the emphasis she places on their role in praying to ensure new heirs for Ivan IV and his younger brother. The article concludes with an English language translation of the testament-rule. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
  • Source: Russian History 34, 40182 (Spring-Summer-Fall-Winter 2007): Pages 189 - 205.
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Devochkina, Elena, Superior of the Novodevichi Monastery Monasticism Moscow- Novodevichi Monastery, a House under Royal Patronage for Women Regula Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: Russia
  • Century: 16
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  • Year of Publication: 2007.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: Not Available