Convent Chronicles

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"In Convent Chronicles, Anne Winston-Allen offers a rare inside look at the Observant reform movement from the women's point of view." "Recovering long-overlooked writings by women in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Winston-Allen surveys the extraordinary literary and scribal activities in German- and Dutch-speaking religious communities in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and the Low Countries. While previous studies have relied on records left by male activists, these women's narratives offer an alternative perspective that challenges traditional views of women's role and agency." "Convent Chronicles will be invaluable to scholars as well as to graduate and undergraduate students interested in the history of women's monasticism and religious writing."--Jacket.

subjects: German literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700,  Christian literature, history and criticism,  Dutch literature, history and criticism,  Women and literature,  Reformation, germany,  Reformation, netherlands,  German Christian literature,  History and criticism,  Dutch Christian literature,  German literature,  Dutch literature,  Nuns as authors,  Reformation,  History,  Women authors