Ruling the Spirit: Women, Liturgy, and Dominican Reform in Late Medieval Germany (The Middle Ages Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (997 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812249550 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Claire Taylor Jones teaches German at the University of Notre Dame.
In Ruling the Spirit, Claire Taylor Jones revises this conventional narrative by arguing for a continuous history of the nuns' liturgical piety. She concludes that Observant friars viewed the Divine Office as the means by which Observant women would define their communities, reform the terms of Observant devotion, and carry the order into the future.. With remarkable continuity across genres and centuries, this literature urges the Dominican nuns to resume enclosure in their convents and the strict observance of the Divine Office, and posits ecstatic experience as an incentive for such devotion. Dominican nuns are presumed to have moved through a parallel arc, losing their high level of literacy in Latin over the cours
Anyone interested in the history of medieval liturgy, the Dominican Order, Observant reform, or more broadly, women's spirituality and mysticism, should read her book."—Barbara Newman, Northwestern University. "Claire Taylor Jones has written a sure-footed, authoritative account of the Divine Office and its importance in Dominican spirituality, especially for German Observant women