Received Medievalisms : A Cognitive Geography of Viennese Women’s Convents
Europe-History-476-1492 Religion-History Literature, Medieval Literature Literature-History and criticism History of Medieval Europe History of Religion Medieval Literature Literature, general Literary History
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
2013
1st ed. 2013.
EISBN 1349352330
""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Caveats and Terminology ""; ""Abbreviations and Conventions ""; ""1. Setting the Stage ""; ""2. Mine�s Taller: On Steeple Distortions in City Depictions ""
""3. Mental Topography and the Viennese Medieval Past """"4. Foundation Stories: The Heroes of Viennese Monasticism ""; ""5. Virgin Intercessor and Other Monastic Miracles ""; ""6. Conclusion: The Persistence of the Medieval ""
""Appendix 1 Views of Vienna: Selected Panoramas, Plans, and Pictorial Reports """"Appendix 2 Vienna in Prose: Selected Histories, Topographies, and Travelogues ""; ""Notes ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index ""
This study examines the post-medieval reception of Vienna's women's monastic institutions. Through analysis of the physical and historical place such women's institutions held in an important urban and political center, this book provides a new picture of the ways in which the medieval shapes later understandings of women's role and agency.
""3. Mental Topography and the Viennese Medieval Past """"4. Foundation Stories: The Heroes of Viennese Monasticism ""; ""5. Virgin Intercessor and Other Monastic Miracles ""; ""6. Conclusion: The Persistence of the Medieval ""
""Appendix 1 Views of Vienna: Selected Panoramas, Plans, and Pictorial Reports """"Appendix 2 Vienna in Prose: Selected Histories, Topographies, and Travelogues ""; ""Notes ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index ""
This study examines the post-medieval reception of Vienna's women's monastic institutions. Through analysis of the physical and historical place such women's institutions held in an important urban and political center, this book provides a new picture of the ways in which the medieval shapes later understandings of women's role and agency.
