Hey #medievaltwitter, I have encountered a strange statistic in a 40 year old paper, and a student of mine was asking about it because she questioned it too. It says that "The most scholarly nuns became abbesses, often at the early ages of 12 to 14." I am suspect of this.
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There is no citation, and no specific examples. The abbesses the author talks about in her paper were all likely to be older when they became abbess so I am wondering where this idea came from.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
...I just want to say: that’s really fucking weird. Romanticized piety?
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Replying to @pixiepanther
No idea. This paper was published in an pedagogical journal about the history of women's education. So, it's brief. I don't blame my students for choosing it...it's the first hit when you search medieval learning on JSTOR.
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But also...all the sources this person used are from like, 30 years before she wrote this article too.
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Replying to @pixiepanther
It is not a very good article. I didn't really mark them down for using it, although one student asked me ahead of time if it was a good article and I said to use something else. I should have sent an email out about it beforehand, but oh well.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @pixiepanther
I didn't anticipate so many using it for their assignment.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Well, you can’t predict everything they might use. I guess send a class wide email stating it’s a crap article and try to find something else?
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well it's too late, the assignments are handed in and marked. they're busy writing essays this week so I'm not going to worry about it.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Maybe they’ll find something neater to delve into. Good luck!
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