Search Results - "abbess"

The garden of delights reform and renaissance for women in the twelfth century / by Griffiths, Fiona J.

Subjects: “…Herrad, of Landsberg, Abbess of Hohenburg, ca. 1130-1195. Hortus deliciarum.…”
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The garden of delights reform and renaissance for women in the twelfth century / by Griffiths, Fiona J.

Subjects: “…Herrad, of Landsberg, Abbess of Hohenburg, ca. 1130-1195. Hortus deliciarum.…”
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Eminent nuns women Chan masters of seventeenth-century China / by Grant, Beata, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Setting the stage: seventeenth-century texts and contexts -- Images of nuns in the writings of seventeenth-century monks -- The making of a woman Chan master: Qiyuan Xinggang -- Qiyuan Xinggang as abbess, dharma teacher, and religious exemplar -- Passing on the lamp: the dharma successors of Qiyuan Xinggang -- From Hengzhou to Hangzhou: Jizong Xingche -- From wise mother to Chan master: Baochi Jizong -- Reviving the worlds of literary Chan: Zukui Jifu -- From Beijing to Jiangnan: Ziyong Chengru.…”
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Eminent nuns women Chan masters of seventeenth-century China / by Grant, Beata, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Setting the stage: seventeenth-century texts and contexts -- Images of nuns in the writings of seventeenth-century monks -- The making of a woman Chan master: Qiyuan Xinggang -- Qiyuan Xinggang as abbess, dharma teacher, and religious exemplar -- Passing on the lamp: the dharma successors of Qiyuan Xinggang -- From Hengzhou to Hangzhou: Jizong Xingche -- From wise mother to Chan master: Baochi Jizong -- Reviving the worlds of literary Chan: Zukui Jifu -- From Beijing to Jiangnan: Ziyong Chengru.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

History in the comic mode medieval communities and the matter of person /

Table of Contents: “…Forgetting Hathumoda : the afterlife of the first abbess of Gandersheim / Frederick S. Paxton -- "If one member glories-- " : community between the living and the saintly dead in Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons for the Feast of All Saints / Anna Harrison -- The pope's shrunken head : the apocalyptic visions of Robert of Uzès / Raymond Clemens -- Thomas of Cantimpré and female sanctity / John Coakley -- The changing fortunes of Angela of Foligno, daughter, mother, and wife / Catherine M. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

History in the comic mode medieval communities and the matter of person /

Table of Contents: “…Forgetting Hathumoda : the afterlife of the first abbess of Gandersheim / Frederick S. Paxton -- "If one member glories-- " : community between the living and the saintly dead in Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons for the Feast of All Saints / Anna Harrison -- The pope's shrunken head : the apocalyptic visions of Robert of Uzès / Raymond Clemens -- Thomas of Cantimpré and female sanctity / John Coakley -- The changing fortunes of Angela of Foligno, daughter, mother, and wife / Catherine M. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view