This study examines the post-medieval reception of Vienna's women's monastic institutions. Through analysis of the physical and historical place such women's institutions held in an important urban and political center, this book provides a new picture of the ways in which the medieval shapes later understandings of women's role and agency.

Autorentext
Cynthia Cyrus is Professor of Musicology and affiliated faculty in Women s and Gender studies at Vanderbilt University, USA, where she also serves as Associate Provost for undergraduate education.

Inhalt

1. Setting the Stage 2. Mine's Taller: On Steeple Distortions in City Depictions 3. Mental Topography and the Viennese Medieval Past 4. Foundation Stories: The Heroes of Viennese Monasticism 5. Virgin Intercessor and Other Monastic Miracles 6. The Persistence of the Medieval Appendix 1: Views of Vienna: Selected Panoramas, Plans, and Pictorial Reports Appendix 2: Vienna in Prose: Selected Histories, Topographies, and Travelogues