The Cistercians

2020 ◽  
pp. 231-247
Author(s):  
Anne E. Lester
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
Brothers And Sisters

Founded in 1098, the Cistercians grew to be one of the most important monastic orders of the Middle Ages, stretching from the shores of Scotland to the littoral of Palestine, from Greece to Poland. This chapter traces three major themes that have influenced the scholarship on the topic, namely the idea of the ‘order’, the role of women within it, and the notion of Cistercian decline or corruption. Administered from its first house, Cîteaux, in northern Burgundy, the Cistercian network included hundreds of houses for monks and nuns as well as granges and chapels administered by lay brothers and sisters known as conversi and conversae, all united within a complex filiation system. From the middle of the twelfth century the Cistercians pioneered one of the most influential administrative organizations of the premodern period and developed a distinctive spirituality and aesthetic that defined their ideal of community and monastic devotion.

Women in twelfth-century English lawsuits

2018 ◽  
Vol 86 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 339-344
Author(s):  
R.C. van Caenegem
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Law Courts ◽  
The Middle Ages

Summary Notwithstanding that the role of women in law courts could be expected to be modest for the Middle Ages, a perusal of lawsuits of the 12th century produced even a lesser proportion than expected.

scholarly journals Barregã e Manceba : dois estatutos diferentes? As Cartas de Perdão na Chancelaria de D. João II

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-141
Author(s):  
Márcia dos Santos Coutinho
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
The Middle Ages

This article discusses the theme of concubines and prostitutes in the Middle Ages, seeking to understand their status in the medieval society, as well as the possible characteristics that distinguish them. With a legislative focus, the present analysis results from the study of Pardon Letters, granted by D. João II and Ordenações Afonsinas, a legislative compilation of the XV century. The use of these sources makes it possible to understand whether concubinage or prostitution correspond to different statutes, both in practice and in legislation, despite their similarity and belonging to the marginal reality of sexuality. An analysis will also be made of the inherent penalties, as well as of the role of women in society.

Harry Potter e Bestiários: A fênix enquanto representação do “Salvador”

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Dandriel Henrique Da Silva Borges
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
The Phoenix ◽  
The Middle Ages

em diferentes tempos: durante o final do Medievo (na cronologia da Europa Ocidental), no entorno do século XII, e na contemporaneidade, retratada pelo universo cinematográfico da saga Harry Potter. Para entender seu papel no medievo serão analisadas versões traduzidas para o inglês de dois bestiários datados do entorno do século XII, Book of Beasts e Aberdeen Bestiary, enquanto sua representação contemporânea será analisada a partir de cenas dos seguintes filmes: Harry Potter e a Câmara Secreta, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix e Harry Potter e as Relíquias da Morte: Parte 2. A partir do entendimento do papel social das narrativas sobre essa figura no final da Idade Média serão então traçados paralelos com o que fora retratado nos filmes, buscando analisar se houve a reapropriação de suas características e funções.Palavras-chaves: Harry Potter, Bestiários, Book of Beasts e Aberdeen BestiaryAbstractThis paper proposes to make an analysis of how the fantastic figure of the phoenix had been worked at different times: during the end of Middle Ages (in Western European chronology), around the twelfth century, and contemporaneously, portrayed by the cinematographic universe of the Harry Potter saga. In order to understand its role in the Middle Ages, versions translated into English of two bestiaries dated from the twelfth century will be analyzed, Book of Beasts and Aberdeen Bestiary, while their contemporary representation will be analyzed from scenes from the following films: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets , Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. From the understanding of the social role of the narratives about this figure in the late Middle Ages a parallel will be drawn to what was portrayed in the films, seeking to analyze whether there was a reappropriation of its characteristics and functions.Keywords: Harry Potter, Bestiaries, Book of Beasts e Aberdeen Bestiary

Witches, Female Weather Makers, and Poisoners in the Carolingian Empire

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-211
Author(s):  
Christoph Galle
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
General Situation ◽  
Carolingian Empire ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Witch Hunt

<?page nr="201"?>Abstract The question about the role of women within medieval societies associatively makes one think of witches who allegedly were up to mischief by using poison or all kinds of magic to inflict maliciously harm on other people. But this impression results too much from an uncritical reception of such propagandistic conceptions that arose from the later medieval and early modern witch-hunt ideology. This cliché of medieval witches neither does justice to the general situation nor can it be transferred to the entire Middle Ages, as a representative view into the Carolingian empire of the eighth and ninth centuries shows.

scholarly journals XVIII.—Letter from Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., F.R.S., F.S.A., addressed to Albert Way, Esq., Director, communicating a transcript of a MS. Treatise on the preparation of Pigments, and on various processes of the Decorative Arts practised during the Middle Ages, written in the twelfth century, and entitled Mappæ Clavicula

Archaeologia ◽  
1847 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Phillipps
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Decorative Arts ◽  
The Middle Ages

The manuscript entitled Mappæ Clavicula, signifying the Little Key of Drawing, or Painting, is a small duodecimo volume of sixty-seven leaves of vellum, written in the twelfth century. It appears to be perfect, except a leaf torn out between pp. 64 and 65 of the modern paging, and a little cropping in two leaves.

Clothing and Female Reclusion in The Life of Mary of Egypt and The Life of Christina of Markyate

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-31
Author(s):  
Anna McKay
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Literary Representation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Holy Women ◽  
Experiences Of Women ◽  
Mary Of Egypt ◽  
The Middle Ages

Over the past two decades, medieval feminist scholarship has increasingly turned to the literary representation of textiles as a means of exploring the oftensilenced experiences of women in the Middle Ages. This article uses fabric as a lens through which to consider the world of the female recluse, exploring the ways in which clothing operates as a tether to patriarchal, secular values in Paul the Deacon’s eighthcentury Life of Mary of Egypt and the twelfth-century Life of Christina of Markyate. In rejecting worldly garb as recluses, these holy women seek out and achieve lives of spiritual autonomy and independence.

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