Nuns’ Literacy in Sixteenth‑Century Convent Sermons from the Cistercian Abbey of Ter Kameren

Stoop, Patricia

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“…Ne récitaientelles pas, pour certaines, l'office par coeur, faute de savoir réellement lire ? Ces questions ont souvent été posées ; Monica Hedlund les aborde avec méthode dans une riche contribution consacrée au monastère suédois de Vadstena 40 monastère de cisterciennes de La Cambre (Ter Kameren, Ixelles) 46 , est à bien des égards typique de ce monde soumis à la stricte clôture, où le travail tient lieu de méditation commune et peut conduire, comme le démontre le graduel du Paradies bei Soest, à l'élaboration d'un savoir autoréférentiel qui cimente la communauté dans sa pratique liturgique quotidienne et dans la perception qu'elle a d'elle-même. On connaît, par ailleurs, de nombreux cas de moniales « exceptionnelles », qui ont brillé par leur culture latine, comme Hildegarde de Bingen bien sûr 47 , mais aussi comme la prieure dominicaine de Colmar Elisabeth Kempf, dont la parfaite connaissance du latin fit, à la fin du xv e siècle, l'admiration de son maître général, qui put aisément discuter avec elle dans cette langue 48 .…”

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La littéracie des femmes à la fin du Moyen Âge. Questions sur l’histoire de la culture, de la lecture et de l’écriture à travers des travaux récents

Duval¹

2018

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La littéracie des femmes à la fin du Moyen Âge. Questions sur l’histoire de la culture, de la lecture et de l’écriture à travers des travaux récents

Duval¹

2018

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Stoop

2024

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages

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Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy

Richardson¹

2020

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This chapter examines the parts that women in Renaissance Italy played, directly or indirectly, in promoting scribal or print publication without their necessarily having a commercial interest in the process. The first section deals with the role in which they were most active, that of self-publisher, investigating the steps that they took to diffuse their own texts, in manuscript or in print. The second section considers two ways in which women contributed to the publication of texts composed by others. In the first of these types of involvement, which was similarly an active one, women occasionally promoted works written by men because they had a personal interest in the writings, out of religious or cultural solidarity. In the second and much more widespread type, individual women were invoked as dedicatees of a work because it was considered, for a variety of reasons, that the publication of the work would benefit from their being connected with it. In most cases a dedicatee's willingness to give consent to a dedication would have been ascertained in advance. 1 Even if a woman's involvement in the publication of a work went no further than according such permission, and her role as patron was thus not necessarily a very active one, the dedicator's decision to select a woman as dedicatee was socially significant for her, and above all it could have a strong influence on the reader's perception of the work. 1 For two examples of preliminary enquiries about a dedication, and an example of an apology for not having made a request for permission, see Richardson, Manuscript Culture in Renaissance Italy, pp. 219-20. Paolo Manuzio felt unable to print Silvan Cattaneo's Dodici giornate in 1551 because the Venetian patrician Marco Antonio da Mula had not provided a formal 'commissione' (instruction) to state that he would act as dedicatee:

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Nuns’ Literacy in Sixteenth‑Century Convent Sermons from the Cistercian Abbey of Ter Kameren

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La littéracie des femmes à la fin du Moyen Âge. Questions sur l’histoire de la culture, de la lecture et de l’écriture à travers des travaux récents

La littéracie des femmes à la fin du Moyen Âge. Questions sur l’histoire de la culture, de la lecture et de l’écriture à travers des travaux récents

Middle Dutch Convent Sermon Collections

Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy

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