Hospitaller Women in the Middle AgesThis volume brings together recent and new research, with several items specially translated into English, on the sisters of the largest and most long-lived of the military-religious orders, the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. In recent years there has been increasing scholarly interest in women's religious houses during the Middle Ages, with particular focus on the problems which they faced and the social needs which they performed. The military-religious orders have been largely excluded from this interest, partly because it has been assumed that women played little role in religious orders with a predominantly military purpose. Recent research has shown this to be a misconception. Study of the women members of these orders enables scholars to gain a deeper appreciation of the nature of hospitaller and military orders and of the role of women in religious life in general. |
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Contents
Women and the Military Orders in the Twelfth and Thirteenth | 43 |
The Sisters of the Order of Saint John at Mynchin Buckland | 89 |
its Early Stages | 113 |
Margaret de Lacy and the Hospital of Saint John at Aconbury | 153 |
The Hospitaller Sisters in Frisia | 179 |
Fleur de Beaulieu d 1347 Saint of the Hospital of Saint John | 209 |
1325c 1507 | 233 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Hospitaller Women in the Middle Ages |
| Editors | Anthony Luttrell, Helen J. Nicholson |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 |
| ISBN | 0754606465, 9780754606468 |
| Length | 265 pages |
| Subjects | › History / Medieval |
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