Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 2701
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Kramer , Dewey Weiss.
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  • Title: “Arise and Give the Convent Bread”: Christine Ebner, the Convent Chronicle of Engelthal, and the Call to Ministry among Fourteenth Century Religious Women [The essay argues that, even though the role was not officially available to her, Christine Ebner seems to have envisioned herself ministering. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Women as Protagonists and Poets in the German Middle Ages: An Anthology of Feminist Approaches to Middle High German Literature.  Edited by Albrecht Classen.  Kümmerle Verlag, 1991.  Pages 187 - 207.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Ebner, Christine, Dominican Nun and Mystic Monasticism Nuremberg, Germany - Convent of Engelthal Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: Germany
  • Century: 14
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  • Author's Affiliation: Dekalb College
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  • Year of Publication: 1991.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 3874527689