Julie Ann Smith. Ordering Women's Lives: Penitential and Nunnery Rules in the Early Medieval West.(Book Review)

From: Utopian Studies | Date: March 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. 246 pp. $74.95 (cloth). (1)

ORDERING WOMEN'S LIVES is an interesting book for a number of reasons. As a result it may be approached on several levels, depending on whether the focus of one's interest is historical, religious, or textual. From a utopian standpoint, it is significant as a study of the embodiment of operating rules and expectations within historical intentional communities, and larger communities as a whole. Different types of texts were used to prescribe women's behavior within abbeys and other religious centers, and the Penitentials ...

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