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E-Artikel
Titel:
Virtual Pilgrimages? Enclosure and the Practice of Piety at St Katherine's Convent, Augsburg
Beteiligte:
EHRENSCHWENDTNER, MARIE-LUISE
Erschienen:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2009
Erschienen in:The Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1017/s0022046908006027
ISSN:
0022-0469;
1469-7637
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<jats:p>For forty years, the sisters of St Katherine's, Augsburg, resisted the introduction of strict enclosure as a consequence of Dominican reform. This article examines the initial reactions of the sisters, explores the Dominican practice of enclosure and its connections with obedience, and the influence it had on the sisters' spirituality. After the community had finally accepted enclosure, they managed to gain a papal privilege granting them all the indulgences usually acquired through pilgrimage to Rome and commissioned a cycle of monumental paintings of the seven Roman pilgrim churches. Thus the sisters could ‘jump’ their convent's walls by embarking on substitute pilgrimages.</jats:p>