Thousands and Thousands of Lovers: Sense of Community Among the Nuns of Helfta (Book)
Title: Thousands and Thousands of Lovers: Sense of Community Among the Nuns of Helfta
Author: Anna Harrison
Abstract: Thousands and Thousands of Lovers examines the spiritual significance of community to the Cistercian nuns of Helfta--a concern that lies at the heart of the monastery's literature. Focusing on a woefully understudied resource and the largest body of female-authored writings in the thirteenth-century, this book offers insight into the religious preoccupations of a theologically expert and intellectual vibrant cloister to reveal a subtle interplay between communal practice and private piety, other-directed attention and inward religious impulse. It considers the nuns' attitudes toward community among themselves and with their household members, with the priests who served them--or neglected to do so--and with souls in purgatory and the saints.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: http://https://litpress.org/Products/CS289P/Thousands-and-Thousands-of-Lovers
Primary URL Description: publisher's website
Publisher: Cistercian Publications
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780879072896
Copy sent to NEH?: No

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