CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Szemere, Ditta Eszter |
|---|---|
| Title | Everyday Life and Literacy: Female Observant Monasteries in Late Medieval Italy and Hungary |
| Summary | The thesis concentrates on the role of the nuns in the religious cultural life after the Observant reform of the mendicant orders in Central Italy (Umbria) and Hungary. The first two observant Poor Clare convents of Umbria, in Perugia and Foligno, were the most active centers of high-profile literary activities in the fifteenth century. Similarly, in Hungary there were two important female monasteries – in Óbuda and in the Margaret Island – where Franciscan and Dominican nuns copied in the scriptorium. These communities’ life and work are well-documented and many scholars have studied these convents respectively, but the present research aims to provide a complex view of the everyday life and work of the nuns after the Observant reform in these two very different historical context as Italy and Hungary in the 15th century. The objective of the research is to gain a better insight into the social and historical background of religious literacy, female religious life and its organizational structures in the pre-modern era, and to offer a comparative view between Italy and Hungary. |
| Supervisor | Gábor Klaniczay |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/szemere_ditta.pdf |
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