Nuns as Historians in Early Modern Germany
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 September 2002
- ISBN 9780199256716
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages246 pages
- Size 224x145x19 mm
- Weight 397 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is the first study to highlight the significance of nuns' writings in early modern Germany. Combining scholarly analysis with illuminating case studies - such as an abbess's account of the Reformation, a prioress's diary from the Thirty Years' War, and a biography of a fifteenth-century visionary - Charlotte Woodford introduces the much neglected female historians of the era, and sets their writings in an historical and literary context.
MoreLong description:
The literary history of early modern German convents is a much neglected field. Nuns' writings were rarely printed and generally only read within their institution. In this study - the first to highlight the significance of this large body of writing - Charlotte Woodford provides an overview of nuns' literary activities in this period, an examination of how the tradition of monastic history became established in convents, and the variety of ways in which it permitted women to express their creativity.
Bringing together for the first time a significant collection of primary source material, Nuns as Historians in Early Modern Germany also includes a number of illuminating case studies, such as a biography of a fifteenth-century visionary, a prioress's diary, and an abbess's chronicle from the Thirty Years' War. It also offers a valuable reassessment of Caritas Pirckheimer's memoirs, written during the Reformation.
Charlotte Woodford's monograph is a major contribution to the emerging literature on convent writing and historical narration in the German empire.
Table of Contents:
List of abbrievations
Reading and writing in early modern German convents
The function of early modern historiography written by nuns
Caritas Pirckheimer's Denkwürdigkeiten in the context of convent historiography
From history to autobiography: two accounts of the Thirty Years' War
Historiography during the Thirty Years' War: The writings of Juliana Ernst and Elisabeth Herold
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
