Stripping the veil : convent reform, Protestant nuns, and female devotional life in sixteenth-century Germany /
"Protestant nuns and mixed-confessional convents are an unexpected anomaly in early modern Germany. According to sixteenth-century evangelical reformers' theological positions outlined in their publications and reform-minded rulers' institutional efforts, monastic life in Protestant r...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford. United Kngdom :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Studies in German history (Oxford University Press)
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Table of Contents:
- "No better than a brothel": verbal abuse, removing nuns, and the destruction of convents, 1520-25
- Part I. Laicization and secularization: the enduring convent after "dissolution," 1525-46
- The fight for keys: extending secular control over monastic houses in an age of religious uncertainty
- Leaving the convent?: nuns, decision-making, and the persistence of convent congregations during the early Reformation
- New habits: negotiating desacralizatiobn, liturgical space, and convent jurisdiction in women's religious houses
- Part II. The birth of the mixed-confessional convent: devotional practice and religious diversity, 1546-90
- "Old, stubborn nuns": secular convent reform between imperial politics and freedom of conscience after the Schmalkaldic War
- The new evangelical nun: monastic investiture and petitions for convent positions
- Singing hymns, removing madonnas: devotional culture in mixed-confessional convent congregations.