Dear Susan,
Please excuse a bit of self-promotion, but I can refer you to 3 articles
which deal with pastoral care and nuns - post Fourth Lateran Council:
Regina D. Schiewer, 'Sermons for Nuns of the Dominican Observance
Movement', pp. 75-92.
V.M. O'Mara, 'Preaching to Nuns in Late Medieval England', pp. 93-119.
Catherine Mooney, 'Authority and Inspiration in the Vitae and Sermons of
Humility of Faenza', pp. 123-144.
All appear In Carolyn Muessig, ed., *Medieval Monastic
Preaching*, Brill's Studies In Intellectual History, 90 (Leiden, 1998).
There are also a few other people in the International Sermon Studies
Society who are working on this topic. If you are going to Kalamazoo in
May you can meet them at the annual luncheon and dinner which they host.
Best of luck with your work on a much neglected topic!
Yours,
Carolyn
Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
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On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Susan Carroll-Clark wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> Now that that pesky PhD is done with, I'm starting to look for new paths to
> take with my research. I've been doing a fair bit of reading lately about
> nuns, and am curious whether anyone has written anything specifically on the
> pastoral care of nuns--either on works which might have been written to help
> priests or even for the nuns themselves. (I'm already familiar with the
> Ancrene Wisse, which sort of falls into this category). In a similar vein,
> does anyone know of works discussing books owned by female monastic houses?
> (I'm already covered for England in this particular search.)
>
> I'm most interested in the 13th and 14th centuries (post Lateran IV), but
> since I'm aware that it can be somewhat more difficult to study the history
> of nuns as opposed to that of monks, I'll read just about anything.
>
> Thanks--
> Susan Carroll-Clark
>
>
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