In Dark Age Nunneries , Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 and 1050 as disempowered or even disinterested witnesses to their own lives.
Vanderputten highlights the attempts by women religious and their leaders, as well as the clerics an.
It is based on a study of primary sources from forty Female monastic communities in Lotharingia--a politically and culturally diverse region that boasted an extraordinarily high number of such institutions.
In Dark Age Nunneries , Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 and 1050 as disempowered or even disinterested witnesses to their own lives