Received medievalisms
a cognitive geography of Viennese women's convents
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Author
Publication
2013 - Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
60,750 words, Guess
Page Count
243 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL30663687M
- ISBN-139780230393578
- OCLC Control Number827256547
- Library of Congress Control Number2012050974
Classifications
- DDC271/.90043613
- LCCBX4220.A9 C97 2013
Description
This study examines the post-medieval reception of Vienna's women's monastic institutions as historical icons of the medieval past. Over time, the eight major women's convents of Vienna become linked in the popular mind with the broader mythology of "Alt-Wien," the old Vienna. Accounts of the city in geographical materials of the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries - maps and panoramas, topographies, travel literature, and Vienna-centric folktale collections - frequently allude to the convents' former identities at the expense of their ongoing presence as active female religious establishments. By teasing out the way people think about the physical and historical place such women's institutions held in this important urban and political center, Received Medievalisms provides a new picture of the ways in which the medieval shapes later understandings of women's role and agency within the city.
Subjects
Series Statement
- The New Middle Ages
Other Editions
- Received medievalisms
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