Sökning: "Vadstena abbey"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden Vadstena abbey.
1. Systrarnas verksamhet, undervisning och uppfostran i Vadstena kloster 1384-1595
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this dissertation is to reconstruct and understand the essential meaning of the teaching and upbringing, which women received at the birgittine mother Abbey in Vadstena during the Middle Ages, from the starting point of source material, contemporary literature and modem research. The method of this reconstructional work can be characterized as hermeneutical existential, which in this case means that the interpretation work is focused on understanding the life conditions and existential situation of the women in the convent and the texts and other cultural artefacts which were produced by themselves or had some connection with their situation. LÄS MER
2. Responsiones Vadstenenses : Perspectives on the Birgittine Rule in Two Texts from Vadstena and Syon Abbey. A Critical Edition with Translation and Introduction
Sammanfattning : Syon Abbey, established as the first Birgittine monastery in England in 1415, quite soon became a powerful institution within the order. Although often asserting their own conceptions of the Rule, the English Birgittines still sought the advice of Vadstena, their mother house, when it came to certain important matters concerning monastic life. LÄS MER
3. Constructing Saint Birgitta : Birgittine Preaching and the Cult of Saint Birgitta in Vadstena Abbey, 1397–c. 1510
Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to examine the construction of Birgitta Birgersdotter (1303–1373) as a saint in sermons from Vadstena Abbey 1397–c. 1510 and the role of sermons in her cult. LÄS MER
4. Diarium Vadstenense : the memorial book of Vadstena Abbey
Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER
5. Guds stat och maktens villkor : Politiska ideal i Vadstena kloster, ca 1370-1470
Sammanfattning : Vadstena abbey was one of the most powerful religious institutions of Sweden in the Middle Ages. This thesis analyses two specific aspects of this position: the position of Vadstena abbey as an agent in the political space of the late Middle Ages, and the political ideals propagated by that institution. LÄS MER