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Dismantling the medieval : early modern perceptions of a female convent's past / Steven Vanderputten
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English, French, German, Latin Publisher: Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 Online-Ressource (247 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)ISBN:- 9782503593487
- Abbaye de Bouxières-aux-Dames -- 18th century
- Benedictine monasteries -- France -- Bouxières-aux-Dames -- 18th century
- Benedictine nuns -- France -- Bouxières-aux-Dames -- 18th century
- Canonesses -- France -- Bouxières-aux-Dames -- 18th century
- Collective memory -- France -- Bouxières-aux-Dames -- 18th century
- 271/.97044382 23/eng/20230216
- BX2615.A2327
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Summary: Dismantling the Medieval studies the paradoxical relationship of the early modern canonesses of Bouxières abbey with the medieval past of their institution. While various documentary, material, spatial, and immaterial legacies of that past remained a crucial presence in the convent's narrative of self, the canonesses also used and manipulated them to pursue and justify drastic changes in their organization and lifestyle. Thanks to an unusually rich and varied body of evidence, we are able to reconstruct in unprecedented detail this elite convent's highly fl exible memory culture over a period of more than two centuries. Guiding the reader back through time, the book gradually reveals how and why the canonesses' connection to the medieval past lived on throughout many crises and transformations, including even the abbey's dissolution inPPN: PPN: 1922681539Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Front Matter -- I. Introduction -- II.1833: A Gift for an Emperor -- III. 1801: St Gozelin's (Im)mortal Remains -- IV. 1784: The Death of a Medieval Convent -- V. 1766: Retooling Religious Space and Identities -- VI. 1692: Old and New Memories of Origins -- VII. Conclusions -- VIII. Appendices -- Back Matter
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In English with appendices in French and parallel English, German and parallel English, Latin and parallel English