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Studies in German History Ser.: Stripping the Veil : Convent Reform, Protestant Nuns, and Female Devotional Life in Sixteenth Century Germany by Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer (2022, Hardcover)

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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100192857282

ISBN-139780192857286

eBay Product ID (ePID)23057255731

Product Key Features

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameStripping the Veil : Convent Reform, Protestant Nuns, and Female Devotional Life in Sixteenth Century Germany

Publication Year2022

SubjectChristianity / Denominations, Europe / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaReligion, History

AuthorMarjorie Elizabeth Plummer

SeriesStudies in German History Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight25.6 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2021-949802

Reviews"Plummer is able to tease out the diversity of convent reform, lending voice and agency to the women who negotiated for their communities and their selves." -- Claire Taylor Jones, History: Review of New Books"Plummer's impressive text is accessibly structured, abundantly supported, and compellingly argued,...the book is invaluable. It should join the list of essential monographs in the field." -- Austrian History Yearbook, "Plummer is able to tease out the diversity of convent reform, lending voice and agency to the women who negotiated for their communities and their selves." -- Claire Taylor Jones, History: Review of New Books"Plummer's impressive text is accessibly structured, abundantly supported, and compellingly argued,...the book is invaluable. It should join the list of essential monographs in the field." -- Austrian History Yearbook"Stripping the Veil is a welcome contribution to a growing body of studies that expand understanding of the multifaceted ways in which nuns' interactions with the outside world contributed to their crafting of devotional practices, spaces, and identities." -- Camilla Kandare, Renaissance Quarterly, Plummer is able to tease out the diversity of convent reform, lending voice and agency to the women who negotiated for their communities and their selves., "Plummer is able to tease out the diversity of convent reform, lending voice and agency to the women who negotiated for their communities and their selves." -- Claire Taylor Jones, History: Review of New Books"Plummer's impressive text is accessibly structured, abundantly supported, and compellingly argued,...the book is invaluable. It should join the list of essential monographs in the field." -- Austrian History Yearbook"Stripping the Veil is a welcome contribution to a growing body of studies that expand understanding of the multifaceted ways in which nuns' interactions with the outside world contributed to their crafting of devotional practices, spaces, and identities." -- Camilla Kandare, Renaissance Quarterly"Stripping the Veil asks what the development of mixed-confessional convents can reveal about how such houses were understood in the sixteenth century and argues that studying such houses and their histories can shed light on aspects of Reformation history that have been more widely studied." -- Lucy Barnhouse, EMW Vol. 19, "Plummer is able to tease out the diversity of convent reform, lending voice and agency to the women who negotiated for their communities and their selves." -- Claire Taylor Jones, History: Review of New Books"Plummer's impressive text is accessibly structured, abundantly supported, and compellingly argued,...the book is invaluable. It should join the list of essential monographs in the field." -- Austrian History Yearbook"Stripping the Veil is a welcome contribution to a growing body of studies that expand understanding of the multifaceted ways in which nuns' interactions with the outside world contributed to their crafting of devotional practices, spaces, and identities." -- Camilla Kandare, Renaissance Quarterly"Stripping the Veil asks what the development of mixed-confessional convents can reveal about how such houses were understood in the sixteenth century and argues that studying such houses and their histories can shed light on aspects of Reformation history that have been more widely studied." -- Lucy Barnhouse, EMW Vol. 19"Stripping the Veil asks what the development of mixed-confessional convents can reveal about how such houses were understood in the sixteenth century and argues that studying such houses and their histories can shed light on aspects of Reformation history that have been more widely studied." -- Lucy Barnhouse, EMW Vol. 19

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal271.9004309031

Table Of ContentIntroduction1. 'No Better than a Brothel': Verbal Abuse, Removing Nuns, and the Destruction of Convents, 1520-1525Part I. Laicization and Secularization: The Enduring Convent after 'Dissolution', 1521-15462. The Fight for Keys: Extending Secular Control Over Monastic Houses in an Age of Religious Uncertainty3. Leaving the Convent? Nuns, Decision-Making, and the Persistence of Convent Congregations During the Early Reformation4. New Habits: Negotiating Desacralization, Liturgical Space, and Convent Jurisdiction in Women's Religious HousesPart II. The Birth of the Mixed-Confessional Convent: Devotional Practice and Religious Diversity, 1546-15905. 'Old, Stubborn Nuns': Secular Convent Reform between Imperial Politics and Freedom of Conscience After the Schmalkaldic War6. The New Evangelical Nun: Monastic Investiture and Petitions for Convent Positions7. Singing Hymns, Removing Madonnas: Devotional Culture in Mixed-Confessional Convent CongregationsConclusion

SynopsisStripping the Veil explores the daily existence, ritual practices, and individual actions of nuns in surviving convents over time against the backdrop of changing political and confessional circumstances in Protestant regions of sixteenth-century Germany., Protestant nuns and mixed-confessional convents are an unexpected anomaly in early modern Germany. According to sixteenth-century evangelical reformers' theological positions outlined in their publications and reform-minded rulers' institutional efforts, monastic life in Protestant regions should have ended by the mid-sixteenth century. Instead, many convent congregations exhibiting elements of traditional and evangelical practices in Protestant regions survived into the seventeenth century and beyond. How did these convents survive? What is a Protestant nun? How many convent congregations came to house nuns with diverse belief systems and devotional practices, and how did they live and worship together? These questions lead to surprising answers. Stripping the Veil explores the daily existence, ritual practices, and individual actions of nuns in surviving convents over time against the backdrop of changing political and confessional circumstances in Protestant regions. It also demonstrates how incremental shifts in practice and belief led to the emergence of a complex, often locally constructed, devotional life. This continued presence of nuns and the survival of convents in Protestant cities and territories of the German-speaking parts of the Holy Roman Empire is evidence of a more complex lived experience of religious reform, devotional practice, and confessional accommodation than traditional histories of early modern Christianity would indicate. The internal differences and the emerging confessional hybridity, blending, and fluidity also serve as a caution about designating a nun or groups of nuns as Lutheran, Catholic, or Reformed, or even more broadly as Protestant or Catholic during the sixteenth century.

LC Classification NumberBX4220