Nuns As Historians in Early Modern Germany

This is the first study to highlight the significance of nuns' writings in early modern Germany. Combining scholarly analysis with illuminating case studies--such as an abbess's account of the Reformation, a prioress's diary from the Thirty Years' War, and a biography of a fifteenth-century visionary--Charlotte Woodford introduces the much neglected female historians of the era, and sets their writings in an historical and literary context.

Charlotte Woodford is Fellow and College Lecturer at Selwyn College, Cambridge.

Abbreviations

xv

Reading and Writing in Early Modern German Convents

1

(30)

Introduction

1

(14)

Nuns as Writers and Consumers of Literature

15

(15)

Conclusion

30

(1)

The Function of Early Modern Historiography Written by Nuns

31

(47)

The Origins of the Tradition of Monastic Historiography

32

(9)

Historiography in Early Modern Convents

41

(36)

Conclusion

77

(1)

Caritas Pirckheimer's (1467-1532) Denkwurdigkeiten in the Context of Convent Historiography

78

(28)

Rereading the Denkwurdigkeiten

83

(9)

The Function of the Denkwurdigkeiten as Historiography

92

(12)

Conclusion

104

(2)

From History to Autobiography: Two Accounts of the Thirty Years' War

106

(38)

Introduction to the Accounts, their Genre and Function

107

(18)

The Autobiographical Element of the Accounts

125

(17)

Conclusion

142

(2)

Historiography During the Thirty Years' War: The Writings of Juliana Ernst and Elisabeth Herold

144

(41)

History as Biography: Juliana Ernst's (1589--1665) Chronik des Bickenklosters

146

(18)

The Chronicle of Elisabeth Herold (1599--1657)

164

(19)

Conclusion

183

(2)

Conclusion

185

(3)

Appendix: Brief Details of the Convents Where Histories Were Written

188

(1)

Bibliography

189

(36)

Index

225

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