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050 00 $aBX4220.G7$bW37 2001
082 00 $a271/.90042/0902$221
100 1 $aWarren, Nancy Bradley.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00109521
245 10 $aSpiritual economies :$bfemale monasticism in later medieval England /$cNancy Bradley Warren.
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$c[2001], ©2001.
300 $axi, 276 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aThe Middle Ages series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-258) and index.
505 00 $gPt. I.$tMonastic Identities in Theory and Practice.$g1.$tVows and Visitations: Textual Transactions and the Shaping of Monastic Identity.$g2.$tThe Value of the Mother Tongue: Vernacular Translations of Monastic Rules for Women.$g3.$tAccounting for Themselves: Nuns' Everyday Practices and Alternative Monastic Identities --$gPt. II.$tBeyond the Convent Wall: Female Monasticism in Later Medieval Culture.$g4.$tA Coin of Changing Value: Monastic Paradigms and Secular Women.$g5.$tKings, Saints, and Nuns: Symbolic Capital and Political Authority in Fifteenth-Century England.$g6.$tLiabilities and Assets: Holy Women in the Literary Economy.$g7.$tPaying the Price: Holy Women and Political Conflict.
520 1 $a"From its creation in the early fourteenth century to its dissolution in the sixteenth, the nunnery at Dartford was among the richest in England. Although obliged to support not only its own community but also a priory of Dominican friars at King's Langley, Dartford prospered. Records attest to the business skill of the Dartford nuns, as they managed the house's numerous holdings of land and property, together with the rents and services owed them.
520 8 $aThat the Dartford nuns were capable businesswomen is not surprising, since the house was also a center of female education.".
520 8 $a"For Nancy Bradley Warten, the story of Dartford exemplifies the vibrancy of nuns' material and spiritual lives in later medieval England. Revising the long-held view that fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English nunneries were impoverished both financially and religiously, Warren clarifies that the women in female monastic communities like Dartford were not woefully incompetent at managing their affairs.
520 8 $aInstead, she reveals the complex role of female monasticism in diverse systems of production and exchange. Like the nuns at Dartford, women religious in late medieval England were enmeshed in material, symbolic, political, and spiritual economies that were at times in harmony and at other times in conflict with each other."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aMonasticism and religious orders for women$zEngland$xHistory$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500.
651 0 $aEngland$xChurch history$y1066-1485.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043265
830 0 $aMiddle Ages series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86746901
852 00 $bglx$hBX4220.G7$iW37 2001