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Konziliare, kuriale und städtische Reformen in den Basler Frauenklöstern und die Bedeutung von sozialen Räumen

  • Christine Kleinjung
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Raum und Medium
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Abstract

A wide range of interest groups, often with quite divergent agendas, was involved in the reform of female monasticism in the fifteenth century. Town councils, the Papal Curia with its legates, and the congregations of the religious orders all pursued reform with their own objectives. They shared the same basic ideas of promoting institutions for women regulated by enclosure, poverty and isolation from the world, but there was no agreement as to how this should be achieved. In any case, the proposals for reform were far removed from the religious and social practices that determined the life of nuns in many monastic communities. This paper will take the reforms recorded for Basel nunneries after the Council of Basel as the basis for an analysis of the various different concepts of reform, and the consequences for life in the convents. The proposals for observant nunneries can be contrasted with the quite specific religous self-perception of the women in unreformed convents, which gave rise to their own, rather distinct concepts of social space. These related primarily to the question of private ownership (proprietarism). Monastic space was conceived as a space in which social status could be upheld while combined with a life of piety.

Abstract

A wide range of interest groups, often with quite divergent agendas, was involved in the reform of female monasticism in the fifteenth century. Town councils, the Papal Curia with its legates, and the congregations of the religious orders all pursued reform with their own objectives. They shared the same basic ideas of promoting institutions for women regulated by enclosure, poverty and isolation from the world, but there was no agreement as to how this should be achieved. In any case, the proposals for reform were far removed from the religious and social practices that determined the life of nuns in many monastic communities. This paper will take the reforms recorded for Basel nunneries after the Council of Basel as the basis for an analysis of the various different concepts of reform, and the consequences for life in the convents. The proposals for observant nunneries can be contrasted with the quite specific religous self-perception of the women in unreformed convents, which gave rise to their own, rather distinct concepts of social space. These related primarily to the question of private ownership (proprietarism). Monastic space was conceived as a space in which social status could be upheld while combined with a life of piety.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter 1
  2. Inhalt 7
  3. Vorwort 9
  4. Raum und Medium. Fragestellungen und Bausteine zu einer Literaturgeschichte Basels 13
  5. Basler Liederbücher? Lyrikhandschriften im Kontext der Basler Literaturszene 87
  6. Otto von Passau and the literary history of Basel in the later fourteenth century 107
  7. Konziliare, kuriale und städtische Reformen in den Basler Frauenklöstern und die Bedeutung von sozialen Räumen 153
  8. Women as scribes and illustrators in the age of reform. The Basel connection 177
  9. Margarethe von Savoyen in Basel 1445. Herrschaftsrepräsentation und ihre Medien im städtischen Kontext 201
  10. Die Rezeption der ›Melusine‹ vor dem Hintergrund persönlicher und medialer Verflechtungen 219
  11. Marquards von Stein ›Der Ritter vom Turn‹. Ein Produkt internationaler Kulturkontakte und literarischer Interessen zwischen adlig-höfischer Tradition, humanistischem Impetus und frühkapitalistischer Verlagspolitik 245
  12. Bibliotheca cartusiae Basiliensis. Die Bibliothek der Basler Kartause mit besonderem Fokus auf die Zeit unter Prior Heinrich Arnoldi (1449–1480) 287
  13. Der Basler Kartäuser Heinrich Arnoldi und seine an heilige Frauen gerichteten Meditationes et orationes. Mit einer Textausgabe der Katharina von Alexandrien und Odilia gewidmeten lateinischen Gebete 315
  14. Basilea aut Christianitatis centrum aut ei proxima est. Eine Gebrauchshandschrift erzählt Geschichten über Basel 373
  15. Die Basler Sammelausgaben von Sebastian Brants Dichtungen. Genese und Programmatik der ›Carmina in laudem beatae Mariae virginis‹ (1494) und der ›Varia carmina‹ (1498) 403
  16. Drucke(n) fürs Seelenheil. Johannes Amerbachs deutschsprachige Publikationen 443
  17. Schauspiel in der Stadt. Der ›Weltspiegel‹ des Valentin Boltz 459
  18. Ketzerstadt Basel. Das mittelalterliche Basel als Projektionsfläche des 19. Jahrhunderts 475
  19. Abkürzungsverzeichnis 493
  20. Register der Personen, Werke, Institutionen und Orte 495
  21. Handschriftenregister 515
  22. Abbildungsnachweise 521
  23. Abbildungen 523
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