Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 13405
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Sensi , Mario.
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  • Title: Monachesimo femminile nell' Italia centrale (sec. xv) [New women's orders were limited by thirteenth-century conciliar decrees requiring that all monastics accept existing rules. Nevertheless, communities of penitent women grew up under episcopal supervision. Some adopted the Augustinian or the Benedictine rule and claustration. Only in the fifteenth century would the papacy give final approval to the Franciscan Third Order. More traditional women's houses tended to follow the Augustinian rule].
  • Source: Il monachesimo femminile in Italia dall' Alto Medioevo al secolo XVII a confronto con l' oggi.  Edited by Gabriella Zarri.  San Pietro in Cariano: Il Segno dei Gabrielli editori, 1997.  Pages 135 - 168. Reprinted in "Mulieres in ecclesia": Storie di monache e bizzoche. Volume One. Mario Sensi. Fondazione Centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medioevo, 2010. Pages 71-104.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Angelina da Montegiove, Franciscan Tertiary Boniface IX, Pope Franciscan Order- Tertiaries Leonessa, Rieti, Italy- Monastery of Santa Lucia Martin V, Pope Matellica,Italy- Monastery of Santa Maria Maddalena Monasticism Nuns Popes
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 15
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  • Year of Publication: 1997.
  • Language: Italian
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