The problem of whether Dominican nuns adopted the order’s official liturgy, implemented in 1256, remains a complex topic. The rarity of liturgical sources containing instructions for the performance of religious ceremonies in female communities hinders the study of this subject. This is complicated by the fact that a substantial number of these texts were redacted in the masculine form, thus not reflecting the reality of the nuns’ performance. Analysis of a codex from the Dominican convent of Jesus of Aveiro (1491), containing gendered vernacular versions of the ordines for the nuns’ reception and profession ceremonies, can contribute to further clarification of this issue. Through comparison with surviving ordines from other territories (Spain and Italy), this study shows how, in the particular case of these ceremonies, female communities adapted and deviated from the friars’ liturgy in order to mirror and respond to their own identities and realities, which, as will be shown, varied from convent to convent and revealed different degrees of autonomy and enclosure.
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Journal of Early Modern Christianity
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Editors-in-Chief:
Wim François
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Edited by:
Grażyna Jurkowlaniec
Languages:
English, German, French
First published:
May 28, 2014
Publication Frequency:
2 issues per year
About this journal
The Journal of Early Modern Christianity (JEMC) is published with our partner Refo500 and its academic department RefoRC. It intends to contribute to interdisciplinary, interconfessional, and comparative research on early modern Christianity.
The journal bears out its interdisciplinary character by including a variety of relevant disciplines, such as church history, social history, cultural history, art history, literary history, history of ideas, history of music and archeology. Its interconfessional approach means that it includes contributions covering the major confessions of early modern Christianity, as well as Christian minorities and dissenters that were not recognized by any of these mainstream confessional traditions.
JEMC also incorporates topics concerning the relationship between Christianity and other religions in the early modern period (Judaism, Islam, etc.). The journal’s comparative approach gives expression to a broader intellectual ambition of stimulating research that is not restricted to a local or national scope, but takes advantage of the rich theoretical possibilities of comparing and synthesizing at a European, international, and even global level. In terms of chronology, the Journal primarily covers the period from 1450 to 1700.
Subscription to the Journal of Early Modern Christianity is part of the membership benefits of RefoRC. For further details visit www.reforc.com.
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Issue 2Pillars of a Sacred World The 1622 Canonizations and the Rise of Modern Catholic Sanctity; Guest Editors: Franco Motta and Eleonora Rai
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Issue 1Special issue: 500 Jahre Rezeption der Reformation in Siebenbürgen und Ungarn: Anfänge und Netzwerke von Konfessionspluralismus in der Überlappungszone von Westund Ostkirche; Guest editor: Ulrich A. Wien
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Issue 2Special issue: Invention, Transfer, and Reception: The Making of the European Reformation; Guest editor: Zsombor Tóth
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Journal of Early Modern Christianity publishes special and thematic issues focussed on important and emerging topics in the field of study. The journal has established a rigorous process to ensure that any special issue manuscripts follow the same high-quality standards and peer review processes as regular manuscripts. For further information on the journal’s peer review policy please see the "Instructions for Authors".
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The main language of the Journal is English. Occasionally, contributions in German and in French are also accepted. Usually contributions will range between 12 and 28 pages (approx. 31.250-68.750 characters or 5.000-11.000 words).
All articles will be double-blind peer reviewed.
Before submitting your manuscript, please get familiar with our Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement and our Code of Conduct for Publication Procedures and Ethics.
Once your article is accepted you have the option to publish it Open Access.
Editor-in-Chief:
Wim François (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Violet Soen (KU Leuven, Belgium)
jemc@reforc.com
Editors:
Grazyna Jurkowlaniec (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Tarald Rasmussen (University of Oslo, Norway)
Rady Roldan-Figueroa (Boston University, MA, USA)
In cooperation with:
Sarah Covington (City University of New York, USA)
Ignasi Fernández Terricabras (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Mercedes García-Arenal (Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid, Spain)
Heiner Lück (Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
Volker Leppin (Yale University, USA)
Mia M. Mochizuki (New York, USA / Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Zsombor Toth (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
Anna Vind (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
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Languages:
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First published:
May 28, 2014
Publication Frequency:
2 issues per year
eISSN:
2196-6656
ISSN:
2196-6648
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