Crown and veil
This collection of essays offers a broad introduction to the history and visual culture of female monasticism in the Middle Ages, from the earliest communities of Late Antiquity to the Reformation. Scholars from different disciplines offer a wide range of perspectives, placing the art, architecture, literature, liturgy, religious practices, and economic foundations of these communities within a wide historical and cultural context.
- Creator
- Hamburger, Jeffrey F. > (ed.)
- Marti, Susan > (ed.)
- Bynum, Caroline Walker > (forew.)