> 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.
Dear Susan,
I am most aware of these issues from an art historical perspective.
Some works that might be interesting for you are:
- Jeffrey Hamburger, "The Use of Images in the Pastoral Care of Nuns:
The Cast of Heinrich Suso and the Dominicans," Art Bulletin, 71
(1989), 20-46
- Idem, Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent
(Berkeley, 1997), with further references; Hamburger focuses largely
on German convents between the 14th and early 16th centuries
- there are also a couple of essays that might be of interest in
Lesley Smith and Jane H.M. Taylor, eds, Women and the Book: Assessing
the Visual Evidence (London and Toronto, 1996):
Judith Oliver, "Worship of the Word: Some Gothic Nonnenbucher in
their Devotional Context," pp. 106-122
Marie-Luise Ehrenschwendtner, "A Library Collected by and for the Use
of Nuns: St Catherine's Convent, Nuremberg," pp. 123-132
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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