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Elizabeth of Schönau : ウィキペディア英語版 | Elisabeth of Schönau
Elisabeth of Schönau (c. 1129 – 18 June 1164) was a German Benedictine visionary. ==Historical Significance==
In the mid 12th century, Elisabeth of Schönau blurred the conventional gender roles of the time through the dissemination of her astonishing and debilitating visions. Elisabeth lived during a time when women were viewed as the weaker sex, both mentally and physically.〔 Unless a woman were to join a convent or a religious movement, she would be expected to marry and to bear children.〔Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff, ed., Medieval Women’s Visionary Literature, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986),4.〕 If a woman did choose the life of celibacy, she would be freed from her association with female weakness, thus exempting her from the charge of corrupting males through seduction.〔 While celibacy offered women a sense of freedom, a woman could not officiate in the central practices of the Christian religion, leaving women essentially powerless.〔 Elisabeth of Schönau, however, was far from powerless, as her visions led her to acquire enough notoriety to be known far and wide. Elisabeth became not only a local celebrity as a result of her visions, but gained popularity throughout other parts of Germany, as well as in France and England.〔 This enabled Elisabeth to have her own voice, to be known as an individual, and to be sought after in an effort to acquire heavenly advice by high order men, including bishops and abbots.〔 For men of such high order to call upon Elisabeth, a mere woman, is extremely significant given the time period period in which Elisabeth lived. Elisabeth’s visions, as well as her twenty-two letters to bishops, abbots, and abbesses, enabled her to transcend the traditional gender roles of the time by making her widely known and giving her an individual voice.
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