Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 8302
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Cossar , Roisin.
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  • Title: A Good Woman: Gender Roles and Female Religious Identity in Late Medieval Bergamo [The author argues that women in Bergamo in the late Middle Ages saw a growing limitation on their participation in public religion. Confraternities became more male-dominated and changed their female members from participants to clients for services including estate management and memorial masses. However, women did find other outlets for their religious devotion within private, domestic environments, such as female monasteries. This resulted in women meeting their spiritual needs by cobbling together a network of relationships and services as reflected by women's bequests from Bergamo of household goods, money, and land to female monasteries, parish churches and confraternities. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 46, ( 2001): Pages 119 - 132.
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy Charity Confraternities Domestic Space Lay Piety Misericordia Maggiore, a Confraternity in Bergamo Devoted Primarily to Charitable Activities Monasticism Parishes Patronage, Ecclesiastical Wills Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 13- 14
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of Manitoba
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  • Year of Publication: 2001.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 00656801