Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 4670
Author(s): Pasztor, Edith.
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Title : I papi del duecento e trecento di fronte alla vita religiosa femminile [The popes of the thirteenth century paid less attention to female than to male religious. Innocent III promoted new forms of women's monasticism, but other popes were less bold. Papal protection was extended to women's monasteries, but this often involved the imposition of stricter enclosure. Nuns of this period frequently showed an intensified desire for union with God].

Source: Donne e sante: Studi sulla religiosità femminile nel Medio Evo. Edith Pasztor . Edizioni Studium, 2000. Pages 97 - 129. Originally published in Il movimento religioso femminile in Umbria nei secoli XIII- XIV. Firenze, 1984. Pages 29-65.
Year of Publication: 2000.

2. Record Number: 4671
Author(s): Pasztor, Edith.
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Title : Esperienza di povertà al femminile in Italia tra XII e XIV secolo [Beginning in the thirteenth century, women not born into poverty increasingly embraced that state voluntarily. Some of the noted religious women were born into poverty, but others abandoned comfortable lives to follow the poor Christ and share the lot of His poor. Religious women who depended on alms were expected to repay these offerings with their prayers].

Source: Donne e sante: Studi sulla religiosità femminile nel Medio Evo. Edith Pasztor . Edizioni Studium, 2000. Pages 131 - 149. Originally published in La conversione alla povertà nell'Italia dei secoli XII- XIV. Spoleto, 1991. Pages 369-389.
Year of Publication: 2000.