Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Women in Cuba'

This study examined the leadership practices of Cuban women managers in Cuba and in the US, and whether preference for these practices by country of residence moderated career success or career entrenchment. The participants consisted of 348 managers across a variety of careers and professions who completed a 33 item survey. Demographic data was also gathered. While the study was quantitative, interaction with the Cuban respondents allowed the researcher to apply certain qualitative axiological assumptions. Descriptive statistics and regression analyses were computed to analyze the data. The findings from the study indicated several associations between leadership practices and country of residence. Overall, the data suggests a positive relation between country of residence and enabling others to act and career success, and a negative relation between any of the practices and career entrenchment. In general, the results support the argument that managers (leaders) should give high priority to the construct of developing, inspiring and enabling subordinates and upholding a leadership development framework and aligning their followers to that framework. The data also revealed that leadership practices in and out of Cuba can be similar, even though there is a marked difference in political ideology. These findings provide insight for those interested in the debate on whether women managers actually existed in Cuba and their leadership practices. Although there is now evidence that Cuban women managers are extant, there is a lack of substantive research into the examination within the field of leadership for this group. This study represents an important contribution to the existing literature regarding Cuban women, as it provides a framework for future stakeholders in Cuba to use in leadership development design. The themes can also be utilized to create professional development opportunities for business leaders, which can support initiating, implementing, and sustaining outstanding organizations in Cuba. Future studies of Cuban women managers that extend the understanding of the interrelationships between leadership practices and career success, career entrenchment and the role of country of residence would be valuable.

This study looks at the broader transformations in Cuban history through the case study of a single, yet symbolic, man, and proposes a new paradigm for understanding the dynamics of Cuban society and culture. It also examines the implications for Cuba’s aspiring national identity at the turn of the twentieth century, by detailing the interplay between fact and fiction in the story of Alberto Yarini: elite born; well-educated; politically and socially well-connected; powerful; and celebrated Cuban racketeer and chulo (pimp). Yarini was described as vibrant and triumphant at a time when other nation-building forces in Cuba were weak and ambivalent. A century after his dramatic death, Yarini became the quintessential public man in Cuban lore who symbolized a cubanidad (Cuban national identity) not defined in terms of the ideological hegemony of class, race, or gender, and who through his actions dispelled the ambivalence that plagued Cuban nationalism. Using archival documents, contemporary newspaper accounts, court records, memoirs, and published works, this study analyzes the confluence of national events and individual action in the formation of Cuban national identity. It contends that for Cuba, the failure of nation-building experiments resulted in an ambivalent national identity based on failed philosophical and political ideals of equality and prosperity. These ideals played out within the context of the realities of racial discrimination, political dissonance, and class and gender barriers. Instead of a cohesive sense of national character, for Cubans the result was a competing set of identities including a populist version that was defined through identification with antitypes and pseudo-heroes such as Alberto Yarini y Ponce de León (1882-1910), a rising politician and celebrated chulo of the early republic. The telling and retelling of his story has given rise to what has been termed the island nation’s first national myth – one that continues to evolve and grow in the twenty-first century. For many Cubans, the Yarini antitype provided an idealized national identity which in many ways was—and many argue continues to be— the expression of an elusive and ambivalent cubanidad.

The purpose of this dissertation is to study women's representation and the contention of space in contemporary Brazilian and Cuban films, in order to analyze the way in which the films reflect societal values regarding gender roles and, consequently the way the nation is represented. The Cuban films I examine are: Retrato de Teresa (1979) and De Cierta Manera (1964), the short "Julia" from Mujer Transparente (1990) and from Brazil I work with the films Gabriela (1983) and A Hora da Estrela (1984.) All of the films have a protagonist that is a woman, and all were successful in the box office and had some international recognition. The films have strong female protagonists and share similar socio-political contexts- the socialist government in Cuba and the military dictatorship in Brazil, as well as a time period marked by social unrest as women's rights groups were very active in both countries. My hypothesis is that although these films were commercially successful, groundbreaking and innovative; they ultimately were marked by some of the gendered contradictions and the feminist questionings of their time. In fact, my analysis reveals that, although they each raise many issues and questions about an egalitarian society for both men and women, they fall short in terms of a progressive politics of gender. A notable exception, the film A Hora da Estrela provides a striking difference to the other films.

Thesis advisor: Karen Kayser
Purpose: Acculturative stress has been found to mediate the relationship between acculturation and psychological distress, yet research investigating the impact of contextual factors on acculturative stress is non-existent. Based on family stress management theory (Boss, 2002), the current study investigates the contextual influence on acculturative stress and psychological distress of Latina women. Acculturation and systems of support were tested for their capacity to moderate the relationships between various significant contexts, acculturative stress and psychological distress. Unique experiences of women born in Cuba, Puerto Rico and Mexico were delineated and compared. Methods: Using the National Latino Asian American Survey, the current study involves 639 Latina women born in Mexico (N=257), Cuba (N=264) and Puerto Rico (N=118). A mediated moderation analysis was conducted through Path Analysis in MPLUS. Results: Findings indicate an inconsistent relationship between acculturative stress and psychological distress. For the combined group of Latina women, racial and daily discrimination shaped acculturative stress and psychological distress most often, followed by age and family-cultural conflict. Income and structural components of internal contexts (i.e. household decision-making power) impacted their psychological distress only. Country-specific variations argue against treating Latina women as a monolithic group. Biculturalism emerged as a more effective integration form. Only spousal support moderated the relationships between contextual factors, psychological distress and acculturative stress. Implications: These findings will inform the development of culturally sensitive clinical interventions. Social work policy makers will gain a comprehensive understanding of resources needed to promote a healthy integration of Latina women into the U.S. Community organizers are encouraged to advocate on behalf of multi-cultural immigration policies that enable the retention of aspects of native culture deemed to buffer Latina women from the negative impact of contextual factors and acculturative stress
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2011
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Social Work
Discipline: Social Work

Orientador: Pedro Paulo Abreu Funari
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: O presente estudo baseia-se na análise da cultura material (louça histórica colonial) para comparar e exemplificar as relações de gênero existentes nas sociedades oitocentistas residentes em Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, e Habana Vieja, Cuba. Tais relações são exemplificadas de duas maneiras: o masculino e o feminino, e a estratificação social no relacionamento senhor e escravo
Abstract: This study analyses the archaeological material culture (crockery) to compare and exemplify the gender relations in 1800's societies of Pelotas, Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil, and Habana Vieja, in Cuba. Such relations are specified in two manners: the masculine and the feminine, and the behaviors in the master/servant social stratifications
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Historia Cultural
Doutora em História

This thesis examines cultivation in the lives of Sarah and Columbia Bennett between the years 1852 and 1874. The Bennett women's letters convey an intimate sense of the agro-economic preoccupations (and gardening pleasures) of these slave-owning white women, and the centrality of cultivation in mid-nineteenth-century rural Louisiana within a landscape of country stores, plantations, and people. As the lives of the Bennett women illustrate, white women's gardening knowledge and practice formed a cornerstone of central Louisiana society. The Bennett women's gardening knowledge and skill were primary components in the creation of a self-sustaining plantation household. By cultivating produce and other foodstuffs for consumption, the Bennett women made possible the family's participation in the lucrative market for cotton and other cash crops, a market that also tied their household to plantation economies elsewhere in the transatlantic world.

Dans le domaine des conquêtes obtenues par les femmes, la Révolution Cubaine depuis 1960, réalise des progrès remarquables. La Fédération des Femmes Cubaines (FMC), fondée en 1960, jouera un rôle essentiel en faveur de l’émancipation féminine, de l’insertion des femmes cubaines dans le monde du travail et de leur participation active à la construction de la nouvelle société socialiste. Cependant, ces progrès obtenus dans le cadre d’un processus idéologique et d’une volonté gouvernementale d’une participation forte des Cubaines dans la construction de la nouvelle société socialiste, cohabitent et se heurtent encore à des croyances propres à une culture machiste et patriarcale, laquelle aujourd'hui, à côté de la crise économique et des changements actuels que connaît le contexte cubain, montrent que la construction de la «nouvelle femme» n’est pas tout à fait aboutie et risque même de menacer les victoires obtenues par les Cubaines au sein de la société et en matière d’égalité des droits. L'analyse de la situation des Cubaines au XXIe siècle, leur rôle dans la construction « d’une société plus ouverte sur le monde » et la création de « nouvelles façons de penser le quotidien cubain » dans la lutte en faveur de l'équité du genre, nous permettra d’étudier les nouveaux défis sociétaux auxquels elles se sont confrontées et les solutions envisagées pour les résoudre
From the first years of the Cuban Revolution, the respect and the defense of the women's rights constituted a priority for the Cuban authorities. The Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), founded in 1960, will play an essential role in the feminine emancipation, the insertion of the Cuban women in the working world and their active participation in the construction of the new socialist society. Nevertheless, serious challenges remain that render the progress made fragile and liable to setbacks. The analysis of the situation of the Cuban Women of the 21st century, her role in the creation of a “society more opened for the world” and in the conception of “new ways of thinking the daily cuban life”, it will allow us to understand the new societal challenges that this arduous mission imposes them
Desde los primeros años de la Revolución Cubana, el respeto y la defensa de los derechos de la mujer constituyeron una prioridad para las autoridades cubanas. La Federación de Mujeres Cubanas (FMC), fundada en 1960, desempeñará un rol esencial a favor de la emancipación femenina, de la inserción de las cubanas en el mundo laboral y de su participación activa en la construcción de la nueva sociedad socialista. Sin embargo, después de una larga trayectoria de lucha en la que han conocido avances y retrocesos, las cubanas de hoy se enfrentan a una realidad plagada de preceptos, normas y comportamientos dictados por una cultura patriarcal que perdura y se manifiesta cada día más en la cotidianidad cubana. La misma, junto a la crisis económica y las transformaciones actuales por las que atraviesa el contexto cubano, hacen que la construcción de “la nueva mujer” continúe siendo una tarea pendiente para la Revolución. El análisis de la situación de las cubanas del siglo XXI, de su rol en la creación de una “sociedad más abierta al mundo” y en la formación de “nuevas formas de pensar la vida cotidiana cubana”, nos permitirá comprender los nuevos desafíos societales que esta ardua tarea les impone

Cuba, once understood to be a highly homophobic country, has been lauded internationally for its attention to sexual diversity rights since 2008. This Thesis examines and analyzes the development of the normalization of attitudes towards sexual diversity in revolutionary Cuba. This includes the evolution of homophobia in Cuba, the Federation of Cuban Women’s development of sexual education, the establishment of the Nation Centre for Sexual Education (CENESEX), and how these elements engage with the island’s view of health. In particular, the thesis focuses on two main questions: how did attitudes towards sexual diversity evolve in Cuba? And what does this evolutionary process tell us about the Revolution?

Cuerpos en disputa, mujer e imaginarios de nación en Hispanoamérica: Juan Francisco Manzano, Eva Perón y Reinaldo Arenas begins with the premise that the values and requirements of a patriarchal society focuses on female icons of symbolic strength and weight. As icons, women are associated as being the center of the monogamous, heterosexual family and therefore, the image of Nation. In Latin America each hegemonic national project has elevated female icons that are a compact synthesis of that nation's essential and defining values. From that idea our research expands to examine how those hegemonic national discourses and imageries are refuted in the nineteenth century through other antagonistic discourses, each in turn putting forward other paradigms of women or other bodies on the literary plane. These test gender issues, sexuality and morality, and the authorized bodies of Woman/Nation are contrasted with other discordant, subversive, fictional faces. Our objective is to discover these images of rebellion, and evaluate the literary, political and ideological dialogue that has been established through these hegemonic female icons.In this sense, the discourses related to Manzano, Evita, and Arenas, three representative figures of diverse successive historical stages within the region throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries --from colonial slavery, populism and communism, to the postmodern-- corroborate that, in effect: Protests and revolutions have presented their own icons of woman or other subversive or discordant bodies in the face of female paradigms set by those in power.The theoretical and critical apparatus is based on the contributions of feminist criticism on women in literature, art and Latin American politics (Helena Araújo, Hélène Cixous, Lucía Guerra-Cunningham, Josefina Ludmer, Francine Masiello and Elaine Showalter), and studies on the links between sexuality, power and society (Judith Butler, bell hook, Michael Foucault, Edward Said and G. Ch. Spivak), as well as research on the formation of societies and national imagery in Latin America since the early nineteenth century (Mabel Moraña, Walter Mignolo and Ángel Rama), all of which is framed in the context of literary and aesthetic movements from neoclassicism to post-modernity.

Throughout history, women have played an important role in literature. Nevertheless, since Sappho's poetry until now, feminine voices have had to struggle for recognition of their works. Before the nineteenth century, women were almost ignored in Spanish literature. Society kept them as "ángeles de la familia," taking care of their homes, husbands, and children. Some of them, such as María de Zayas y Sotomayor in Spain and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in Mexico, complained about their situation in their writings. However, they expressed their fight not as a generation but as individuals. In the nineteenth century, the ideas and ideals of Romanticism, were brought to Latin America from Europe. Cuba was among those countries where the new movement took roots. Initiated by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, a group of women began to participate in literary reunions, and to found newspapers and magazines where works authored by women, dedicated to feminist ideas, were published. They indeed through literature started to live out womanhood in order to intellectually leave the ideological prisons where society had been keeping them. This study scans the literary works of all Romantic women writers in Cuba. It specifically analyzes poetry and short stories, and investigates how these authors expressed themselves in their works against the patriarchal society, where they lived and wrote their books. An eclectic critical method has been used. Findings were very revealing. Only three of the fourteen writers studied in my dissertation had been previously mentioned by major critics. Most of them had been ignored. However, the greatest discovery was that they prompted something new: For the first time they projected themselves as a group, as a collective consciousness, and this fact established a difference with former women writers in Cuban literature before Romanticism. In other words, they produced a "Renaissance" in Cuba's literature. In spite of how they lived between 1820 and 1900, their struggles for women's rights have linked them to our current times.

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The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding and gather insight into the experiences of Cuban American women attending a 4-year, public, Hispanic Serving Institution and how those experiences influenced their identity development. This was accomplished by conducting in-depth interviews and focus groups with 12 self-identified Cuban American women who were classified as sophomores, juniors, seniors, or graduate students. All of the participants had attended Florida International University for at least 1 year. The women had varying degrees of on and off campus academic and campus involvement activities. Participants were asked about six topics: (a) family, (b) cultural influences, (c) gender, (d) ethical and moral development, (e) education, and (f) ethnic identity. Based on the coding of the data provided by the participants, several interconnected themes emerged including the importance of family, familial support, cultural pride, expected gender roles, core values, decision making, biculturalism, and the value of attending a Hispanic Serving Institution. These themes were found to be all related to the identity development of the participants. It was found that looking at identity through a multidimensional lens is essential. Looking at personal growth and development through anthropological, sociological, and psychosocial lenses gave greater insight to a population of students who have been largely underrepresented in the literature. The findings of this case study are that culture is contextual and identity development is complex for first and second generation Cuban American women attending a Hispanic Serving Institution in a majority minority city. It was found that several factors, including the importance of family and gender roles, were not found to be more important than one another; rather they supported each other in regards to the participants’ identity development. The notion of biculturalism as it has been presented in the literature was challenged in this study as it was found that the participants’ experiences living and attending a school in a majority minority city presented a new way of understanding what it might mean to be bicultural. For professionals in the field, the findings of this study may lead to a broader understanding of nuances within the Hispanic community and a better understanding of the distinctiveness of what it means to be a Cuban American woman.

Thesis advisor: Hosffman Ospino
The Catholic Church’s formal documents throughout the centuries have celebrated and affirmed the role of parents educating their children on faith matters in the context of the home. Nevertheless, the Church offers parents very little practical guidance as to how they can make their home a domestic church or what they can do to organically and consistently incorporate the faith into daily life. As the Church analyzes why presently 6 Catholics are disaffiliating for every new member that joins, it must reconsider the lack of attention the home has received as an authoritative space for religious transmission. The home, as a sacramental space, has the potential to call attention to the divinity that surrounds us and invites us to action and awakening. It is also the haven where we nurture our most important and loving relationships that initiate us into the faith. The home is also a space for negotiation, that is, where we learn to wrestle with mystery and ambiguity. Critical dialogues within the home are imperative to engaging the present world from a Catholic perspective. This dissertation conducted an ethnographic study of a group of Miami-based Cuban American Catholic women across two generations. The women were chosen based on their active involvement within the Catholic Church. The study found that 100% of the women were successful in transmitting their Catholic faith to their daughters due to four socialization practices. Faith modeling by extended kin, engagement in social justice vocations across the community, explicitly affirming the personalization of daily rituals such as prayer, and finally, ongoing intergenerational dialogues were found in the stories of all the women participants. Religious imagination is the glue that holds all of the moving pieces (home, women and socializing praxis) in this dissertation. I provide herein a midrash of Matthew 27:57-61 to illustrate how the physical and relational components of the Cuban-American home serve to negotiate a hermeneutic that is matriarchal, bottom-up, and interdisciplinary. The hermeneutic echoes the message of the women studied herein; namely, that a community working together in the midst of dislocation is already being liberated. Noting the psycho-social importance of a cohesive narrative identity and its impact on authentic faith transmission calls into question whether the pedestrian nature of the home has led to mistaken notions of this pedagogy being too simplistic. Nevertheless, in telling stories and (de/re)constructing life narratives, individuals are placed within the larger scheme of history, redemptive sequences are analyzed and building resilience, and the stories themselves become a safe space from which to discern larger questions. This dissertation proposes communal, home-based activities as an effective method for faith transmission as it fosters the necessary intimacy to share relevant and passionate stories that powerfully answer why being Catholic truly matters now and to our next generation
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2021
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry

Jineterismo, frequently used as a synonym of prostitution, became a widely used term in Cuba in the 1990s. Perceived by some as a social problem that needed to be eliminated, and as a liberating economic strategy by others, the term is discussed in major studies on contemporary Cuba and often mentioned by travel writers outside of Cuba. Some scholars define jineterismo as the new female strategy adopted by young women to obtain hard currency, on the other hand, an influential Cuban politician, criticised jineteras, stating that they were immoral and embarrassing to Cuba. This study seeks to understand the meanings and practices of jineterismo from a bottom up perspective. Using ethnography to locate answers about jineterismo, I explore the meanings of the concept based on the views of those that Cuban society labels as jineteras. The central argument put forward in this study is that jineterismo has to be analysed as a diverse set of practices caused by a diverse set of factors, and that it involves a heterogeneous group of individuals. Jineterismo, I argue, ranges from the struggle to obtain hard currency to the practices involved in developing and maintaining romantic relationships with tourists, and is strongly informed by the desire to emigrate abroad. While jineterismo currently appears to be embedded in discourses of prostitution, this thesis highlights the romantic side of jineterismo and brings to the fore young Cuban women’s perceptions of Cuban men and life in Cuba, views that contrast significantly with their positive images of Europeans and the Western world. More importantly, the thesis improves our knowledge of jineterismo by offering a new perspective into the reasons that lead young Cuban women to seek relationships outside Cuba.

Summary Background: Previous studies report that women are failing to make informed choices with regard to antenatal screening, due to significant deficits in knowledge. However, current definitions dictate that informed choice occurs not merely as a result of sufficient knowledge, but by acting in line with one’s attitudes despite perceived social pressure (Dormandy et al., 2002). Objective: To investigate whether women are making informed choices with regard to Combined Ultrasound & Biochemical (CUB) screening, using more substantial criteria. Design: Prospective non-experimental. Setting: The Queen Mother’s Maternity Hospital in Glasgow. Sample: 63 women due attend their first antenatal appointment. Outcome measures: responses to a questionnaire constructed for the purposes of the study. Methods: A multidimensional questionnaire measure encompassing demographic factors, areas of knowledge recommended by The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG, 1993) and all aspects of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB; Ajzen, 1985). Results: Women appeared to be well informed, though there were some worrying misconceptions. Women appeared to intend to act in line with their attitudes, although small numbers of women planning to refuse screening limited findings. Attitude was the strongest predictor of behavioural intention. Conclusions: There appears to be moderate support for the hypothesis that women would make ‘informed choices’, though this is limited by a number of factors which require further investigation.

Leaving Little Havana is the story of a young girl who leaves her comfortable middle-class home in La Habana just after the Cuban Revolution and, fighting to overcome cultural and language barriers, forges a new life in Miami. Dealing with a torn identity and discovering her voice are at the center of the narrative. After an endless string of escapades, she finally pulls herself together, learns the value of her inner strength by rising above bleak circumstances and gets accepted to journalism school in California. The book examines the devastating effects of immigration on a family and the struggle of a child of Cuban exiles, coming of age in a foreign society, to beat the obstacles that stand in her way to a stable and satisfying life. The narrator shows that Cuban immigrants share similar challenges with all who have aspired to make America their home.

This master s degree thesis is a ethnographic study on the religious works practiced by the female faith healers in the city of Itabaiana/SE. I attempt to show how these people exercise their cure practices in the several believers through the use of prayers and symbols such as the branch, the water, the oil, etc. Armed with these symbols, the female faith healers perform their healing rituals in private, within their own homes or in some other location such as the backyard, thus free from the interference of religions considered as official. In this research, besides of orality, we also relied on theoretical research of classical anthropology authors, as well as on contemporary authors. Therefore, this study shows that the female faith healers guide their life trajectory inside the popular Catholicism; however, they exercise their healing practices autonomously, fluidly, through symbolic exchanges and religious exchanges among the various spheres of popular and institutionalized religions.
Esta dissertação de mestrado é um estudo etnográfico acerca dos trabalhos religiosos exercidos pelas rezadeiras na cidade de Itabaiana/SE. Procuramos mostrar como essas pessoas exercem suas práticas de curas nos diversos fiéis, mediante o uso de orações e de símbolos como o ramo, a água, o óleo, etc. Munidos desses símbolos, as rezadeiras realizam suas curas em rituais privados, dentro de suas próprias casas ou em algum outro local, como o quintal, livres assim da interferência das religiões tidas como oficiais. Nesta pesquisa, além da oralidade, baseamo-nos também em pesquisa teórica de autores clássicos da antropologia, bem como de autores contemporâneos. Esse estudo, portanto, vem mostrar que as rezadeiras pautam sua trajetória de vida no interior do catolicismo popular; no entanto, exercem suas práticas de curas de forma autônoma, fluida, mediante trocas simbólicas e intercâmbios religiosos entre as várias esferas das religiões populares e institucionalizadas.

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The objective of this research is to understand how the population composed of Africans and Afros Brazilians in Desterro (SC), especially the women, healers, mourners and healers who used the ancestral knowledge, for the practices of healing between 1844 and 1889 in Desterro (SC). This period, when posture codes, the terms of well-being in communion with the hygienist's medical gaze, and the desire to modernize by local political elites were in vogue, with the intention of controlling the poor populations and, consequently, the called healing practices developed by populations of African origin. The empire and the beginning of the Republic, with their ideals of modernization, hygiene and the fight against insalubrity, based on the absolute knowledge of medicine, also tried to regulate the practices called "witchcraft." The numerous works that approach the theme of healers and healers in Santa Catarina, with few exceptions, mainly focus on white women who are believed to be Azorean descendants. The African presence and its healing practices related to patient care appear in the background. We used as main source of research, announcements of local newspapers, inventory, trades and correspondence exchanged between the administration of the province of Santa Catarina and the empire, linked to the practices of healing and prayers on the island of Santa Catarina
O objetivo desta pesquisa é de que forma a população composta por africanos e afros brasileiros em Desterro (SC), especialmente as mulheres, benzedeiras, rezadeiras e curandeiras que se utilizavam dos conhecimentos ancestrais, para as práticas de cura entre 1844 a 1889 em Desterro (SC). Período este, em que estavam em voga os códigos de postura, os termos de bem viver em comunhão com o olhar médico higienista e o desejo de modernizar por parte das elites políticas locais, com a intenção de controlar as populações pobres e, consequentemente, as chamadas práticas de cura desenvolvidas pelas populações de origem africana. O Império e o início da República, com seus ideais de modernização, higienização e combate à insalubridade, pautados no saber absoluto da medicina, também tentaram regular as práticas chamadas de ″feitiçarias". Os inúmeros trabalhos que abordam a temática de curadores e benzedeiras em Santa Catarina, salvo poucas exceções, têm como enfoque principal, em sua maioria, mulheres brancas e supostamente descendentes de açorianas. A presença africana e suas práticas de cura ligadas ao atendimento aos doentes aparecem em segundo plano. Por esse motivo, esta pesquisa pretende abordar estas práticas presentes em Desterro e seus desdobramentos. Utilizamos como principal fonte de pesquisa, anúncios de jornais locais, inventário, ofícios e correspondências trocados entre a administração da província catarinense e o império, ligados às práticas de cura e rezas na ilha de Santa Catarina

Na busca pela saúde muitos recorrem a práticas religiosas que, ao longo do tempo, foram consideradas estranhas e extravagantes. Nossa cultura racionalista perdeu de vista a imensa contribuição que as rezadeiras, ainda hoje, oferecem para a vida de muitas pessoas que a elas recorrem em busca de alívio de suas dores materiais e espirituais. Nesta dissertação nossa tarefa, como cientista da religião, é reconstruir pontes que possibilitem um diálogo integrador e transdisciplinar das ciências com a vida. Nas benzeções, busca-se saúde e se encontra salvação, entre, através e além dessas práticas. Negar a complexidade deste fenômeno é negligenciar a força revitalizadora que anima e fortalece a experiência de fé e de solidariedade que é possível identificar em nossas periferias.
Searching health, many people resort to religious practices that along the time were considered strange and extravagant. Our racionalistic culture has lost the great contribution that the sorceress offers to the lives of many people who appeal to them looking for relief to their material and spiritual pain. In this dissertation, our work, as a religion scientist, is to reconstruct bridges that could make possible an integrated and transdiscipline dialogue between science and life. In magic blessing practice, health and salvation are in a dialogical relationship between, through and beyond prays and blesses. Deny this phenomenon complexity is the same as negligence the revitalization strength that empowers and encourages the faith and solidary experience which could be find in all society levels.

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A pesquisa visa refletir acerca do universo cultural e religioso de Rezadeiras e Rezadores do município de Governador Mangabeira, Recôncavo sul da Bahia, nas décadas de 1950 a 1970, ressaltando as suas atuações nas comunidades que residem. Esses sujeitos históricos são integrantes das classes trabalhadoras e negras, os quais, motivados por questões econômicas, foram introduzidos no mundo do trabalho ainda na infância. Por fatores raciais, esses indivíduos, em sua maioria, alocados na segunda geração do pós-abolição, perambularam pela região em busca de melhores condições de vida, uma vez que as migrações pelas cidades do Recôncavo foram intensas até as décadas de 1950. Nesse sentido, buscou-se na elucidação de experiências cotidianas, sobretudo no universo do trabalho e nos aspectos religiosos da benzeção refletir acerca das identidades individuais e coletivas construídas no processo. A permanência dos elementos culturais presentes no âmbito das benzeções revela particularidades de uma população no que tange à relação que estabelecem com o sobrenatural, as doenças e a cura, suas expectativas, sentimentos e as possibilidades de transcendência da dura realidade. Sendo assim, as fontes utilizadas foram os periódicos Folha do Norte e o Jornal A tarde, assim como os depoimentos orais dos sujeitos históricos envolvidos no contexto histórico em análise. This research aims to reflect on the cultural and religious universe of women healer and man healer from the town Governador Mangabeira, Recôncavo Southern Bahia, from 1950 to 1970 decades, emphasizing their role in the communities where they live. These historical subjects make part of working and black classes, who, forced by economic necessities, were inserted into the working world yet in the childhood. Due to racial factors, most of them were allocated in the post- abolition second generation, which made them perambulate through the region in search of a better life, because migrations through Recôncavo Southern Bahia were very intense until 1950. Thus, by elucidating everyday experiences, especially in terms of working and religious blessing practice aspects, this work aimed to reflect on individual and collective identities built in the process. The permanency of cultural elements presented in the blessing practice extent reveals particularities of people regarding relations they firm to the supernatural, the sicknesses and cures, their expectations, feelings and the possibility to transcend from the tough reality. The following sources were used in this study: periodicals Folha do Norte and Jornal A tarde and oral testimonials of the historical subjects involved in the historical context under discussion.

Cubans arrive in the U.S. with more formal education than other Latino immigrants, and they arrive to communities with long standing networks of support. Though their baccalaureate degree attainment is better than their non-Cuban Latina counterparts, Cuban women still lag behind White, non-Latina women. The qualitative study aims to explore the principal influences and non-academic factors that 15 adult Cuban non-native English-speaking women in South Florida attribute to the successful attainment of their baccalaureate degree. There are many differences among the various immigrant Latino communities in the U.S., and Cuban women are largely absent from the research. Nearly 75% of Cuban women who start Miami Dade College with English as a second language course-work drop out within one year of matriculation. Understanding the principal influences and non-academic factors related to the baccalaureate attainment rate of this group may assist educators and administrators in providing the support these women need to enhance their degree completion. The literature says that the baccalaureate degree attainment of Latinos is influenced by age-at-the-time-of-immigration, country of origin, and gender, yet little research was found on the degree attainment specifically of female Cubans who entered the U.S. having already completed most of their education in Cuba. My dissertation explores the journey of 15 Cuban women who arrived in the U.S. as teens during the 1990s and had to learn English as a second language at an urban community college prior to completing a baccalaureate degree. The purpose of the research is to describe the principal influences and non-academic factors that these women attribute to their baccalaureate degree attainment.

Esta tesis doctoral analiza la relación entre la organización de los cuidados y las politicas de austeridad enmarcadas en el capitalismo global. Se trata de conocer, por un lado, cómo las medidas económicas aplicadas en España tras el inicio de la crisis financiera actual han provocado cambios en esta organización que han afectado, especialmente, a las mujeres inmigradas. Por otro lado, se pretende enmarcar esta organización de los cuidados en el contexto de la globalización neoliberal, sosteniendo que ésta se apoya en una división sexual y clasista del trabajo de cuidados que traspasa las fronteras nacionales. Tal y como se desarrolla en el marco teórico y contextual de esta tesis, los efectos de las medidas de austeridad derivadas de la exigibilidad de la devolución de la deuda financiera se trasladan al aumento de la llamada deuda con las mujeres por el trabajo de cuidados. Un análisis feminista de las crisis permite revisar el concepto de deuda y poner en cuestionamiento los planteamientos androcentricos que invisibilizan la economia del cuidado. Esta tesis pretende realizar una critica feminista a las crisis y a las medidas de austeridad. Tambien busca hacer una aproximación al concepto de deuda con las mujeres por el trabajo de cuidados, especialmente, con las empleadas de hogar inmigradas y con las cuidadoras en origen.
The general objective of this thesis is to analyse the relationship between changes in welfare policies in the current context of economic recession, the organisation of care and its impact on female Ecuadorian domestic workers in Spain, and the carers of these workers’ families in Ecuador. The aim was to examine the way in which measures designed to ensure the repayment of financial debt, which are affecting the Spanish welfare system, are increasing the exploitation of care, particularly among the women who provide most care, including female migrant domestic workers. In short, the thesis was designed to study the links between neoliberal measures associated with patriarchal capitalism, and the undervaluation and increased precariousness of care work globally. The study of global care chains is strategically important for this purpose. It can reveal how the economic and social structure is supported by the sexual, international and class division of care work from a global perspective. It allows us to associate the continuum of the recession with the origin of these chains: the crisis of social reproduction in the South resulting from the application of Structural Adjustment Programmes, which led to an increase in emigration; the care crisis in the North, which attracts domestic workers from the South; and the current financial crisis. In addition, we can analyse the similarities between the Structural Adjustment Programmes implemented in the South and the austerity measures introduced in the North, and their effects on the increase in unpaid care work, which is mainly undertaken by women. The thesis establishes a theoretical framework on global care chains; a contextual framework on austerity measures taken since the start of the Spanish recession and their impact on the organisation of care; a contextual framework on the effects on care of the Structural Adjustment Programmes implemented in Ecuador after the external debt crisis; and a case study on the organisation of care relating to female Ecuadorian domestic workers in Barcelona, and the main carers of their children in Ecuador. The case study is based on an analysis of 20 semi-structured interviews undertaken in Barcelona and 9 in Ecuador. One of the research questions that guided the thesis was how changes in the welfare policies in response to the Spanish financial crisis could have augmented the privatisation of care, and particularly affected female immigrant domestic workers. Through an analysis of statistical sources, legal sources and the case study, it was found that the crisis and its political response have led to greater exploitation of care work in the home, which has had a major impact on female immigrant domestic workers in particular. To make the cuts, the government has relied on unpaid or very precarious care work in homes, which has boosted the privatisation of care. For example, domestic workers who participated in this research described how they had been particularly affected by nursery school cuts. Welfare strategies developed by families in a context of recession have also led to greater dedication to care tasks, which affects the time poverty of this group. Changes in consumption patterns as a result of situations of vulnerability that have been aggravated by the recession mean that more time and energy must be dedicated to preparing food, shopping and managing the family budget. The study of similarities between neoliberal measures and how they are associated with care in Ecuador and Spain revealed that, in both cases, neoliberal globalisation exploits care work. Neoliberal measures depend on this exploitation and exacerbate it. Although there are notable differences between these countries in terms of the association between neoliberal measures and care, this thesis shows how cuts and welfare strategies in both Ecuador and Spain have increased women’s work load. Another important aspect of this thesis is related to the analysis of care in Ecuador of the children of the female Ecuadorian domestic workers who were interviewed. The emigration of domestic workers means that a series of arrangements must be made to ensure the welfare of children back at home. The emigrant mothers participate in these arrangements through kinship, communication or sending remittance. Family networks in Ecuador also participate, with the involvement of various members of the family, particularly women and girls, who care for the children. This analysis increased the visibility and value of transnational care carried out by domestic workers and carers in their home countries. In short, this thesis reveals how patriarchal capitalism at a global level exploits the work of carers and relegates it to the domestic sphere, with no pay or under precarious conditions. This study could contribute to highlighting the invisibility and lack of recognition of this work that is centred on sustaining life.

Sanctae modernae in diebus nostris? - Hagiographische Konzeptionen weiblicher vita religiosa im Umfeld der Mendikanten Die Dissertationsschrift ergründet die Entwürfe weiblicher Heiligkeit im Umfeld der Bettelorden. Die Frauenviten der Mendikanten boten sich für eine vergleichende Untersuchung an, da sie eine hagiographische Neuheit darstellten, insofern ein Großteil der verehrten Frauen Laien waren. In Anbetracht dessen, dass die Mendikanten einen erheblichen Beitrag zur Moralisierung der mittelalterlichen Gesellschaft und zur Verbreitung kirchlicher Ordnungs- und Normierungskonzepte geleistet haben, wurde ich von der Frage geleitet, ob sich mit den Bettelorden die Funktion der Hagiographie gewandelt hat, so dass sie stärker als zuvor zur sittlichen Besserung der Gläubigen eingesetzt wurde. Die Untersuchung der weiblichen Heiligenviten der Mendikanten hat gezeigt, dass die Aussageabsichten der Texte jeweils andere waren und die Schriften, um mit Gert Melville (Geltungsgeschichten) zu sprechen, sehr „differente Funktionen der Legitimierung, der Konsolidierung, der Integration und Abgrenzung“ einnahmen, was zu recht unterschiedlichen „Ausgestaltungen der für relevant angesehenen Vergangenheitspartien“ geführt hat. Um die Texte dennoch vergleichen zu können, habe ich sie in Gruppen unterteilt, entsprechend ihrer im Text dominierenden Funktionsweise : ♦ Viten in denen die paränetische Funktion im Vordergrund steht ♦ Viten in denen die Rechtfertigung einer bestimmten Lebensweise im Vordergrund steht ♦ Viten mit prestigestiftender Funktion ♦ Multifunktionale Viten Für die weitere Forschung ist es ratsam, sich nur einem dieser Typen zuzuwenden. Für die Betrachtung der paränetischen Viten wäre ein Vergleich mit der entsprechenden Predigtliteratur deutlich aufschlussreicher. Der Dominikaner Thomas von Cantimpré, der sich mit jedem Satz seiner Werke als Seelsorger zu erkennen gibt, gehört zu den am besten untersuchten Hagiographen heiliger Frauen. Bislang galten seine Werke als typische Beispiele mendikantischer Vitenschreibung. Dies war auch der Grund, dass die Dissertationsschrift mit ihm bzw. dem in seinem Umfeld wirkenden Jakob von Vitry einsetzt. Die vergleichende Untersuchung aller weiblichen Heiligenviten zeigt, dass Thomas im 13. Jahrhundert noch eine Ausnahmeerscheinung war, da die Werke in denen die Paränese im Vordergrund steht, nur einen Teil der hagiographischen Lebensbeschreibungen betrifft. Fazit: Auch im Zeitalter der Bettelorden erfüllte die Textsorte vor allem klassische Funktionen, indem sie in erster Linie der Andacht und Heilsvergewisserung diente, darüber hinaus jedoch auch ganz pragmatische Absichten verfolgte. Dynastische Interessen trugen ebenso wie innerklösterliche Probleme, kirchliche Anordnungen (Klausurierung weiblicher Religioser, Verurteilung der häretischen Spiritualen), ordensinterne Bestimmungen (beispielsweise solche, die regelten, wie mit der cura monialium zu verfahren sei) oder wichtige politische Ereignisse (die Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Guelfen und Ghibellinen in Florenz) zur Entstehung der Schriften bei. In Hinblick auf die bedeutende Rolle die das Papsttum, einzelne Dynastien, Kommunen oder Klöster bei der Abfassung einer Vita gespielt haben, glaube ich, dass es sich bei den jeweiligen Heiligkeitkonzeptionen mehr um zeittypische oder auch regionale Phänomene (Modeerscheinungen) den originär mendikantische Heiligkeitskonzeptionen handelt. Die in den Heiligenviten präsentierten Leitideen sowie die Art der Darstellung richteten sich vor allem nach der Funktion der Texte bzw. danach für wen (welche Rezipienten) die Werke bestimmt waren. So ist der laikale Rezipientenkreis der Grund dafür, dass sich die meisten Elisabethviten durch eine leicht verständliche Ausdrucksweise und ein klares Heiligenbild auszeichnen. Wohingegen die Werke des Thomas von Cantimpré, der sich als Novizenmeister zunächst an seine eigenen Mitbrüder richtet, einem komplexen Aufbau folgen und kunstvoll stilisiert sind. Einfluss auf die Gestaltung der Schriften hatten außerdem die sehr unterschiedlichen biographischen Hintergründe der Hagiographen. Denn der hochrangige Ordensvertreter und Vertraute der Kurie betätigte sich ebenso als Vitenautor (Jakob von Vitry und Konrad von Marburg waren Kreuzzugsprediger, Konrad überdies Inquisitor, Thomas von Cantimpré war Lektor, Thomas von Celano war der erste offizielle Ordenschronist des Franziskanerordens, Dietrich von Apolda war der Hagiograph des heiligen Dominikus) wie der politisch unbedeutende Bruder, den nicht sein Orden, sondern die persönliche intensive Beziehung zur Beichttochter zum Schreiben trieb. Neben dem unterschiedlichen Bildungsgrad der Autoren wirkten sich außerdem die starken regionalen Unterschiede auf die Qualität der Texte aus. So hatte das Verfassen von Heiligenviten in Brabant eine lange Tradition, während es in Ungarn etwas völlig Neues war. Auch regionale Besonderheiten hatten Einfluss auf die thematische Aufbereitung der Schriften. So kam dem Bußgedanken wie auch der Seelenrettung aus dem Fegefeuer in den brabanter Schriften besondere Bedeutung zu, was auf die regionale Nähe zur Pariser Universität zurückzuführen ist, an der damals genau jene Themen diskutiert wurden. Als weiteres Ergebnis der Untersuchung ist somit festzuhalten, dass die in den Frauenviten der Bettelorden aufgezeigten Leitideen mehr über die Rezipienten und Autoren aussagen, als über die Heiligen, die sie beschreiben. Dieser Befund widerlegt die in der Frauen- und Mentalitätsforschung gängige These, wonach die Frauenviten typisch weibliche Frömmigkeitsformen darstellen. Für die Beurteilung der Texte ist es vielmehr entscheidend, ob sie für ein laikales, monastisches oder klerikales Publikum verfasst wurden.

In 1960, Fidel Castro’s newly founded revolutionary government created the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) in an attempt to bring women into the revolutionary process. Vilma Espín, herself a former revolutionary, was asked to lead the FMC in the changes that it brought to women living all over Cuba. This thesis will examine the personal influence that Espín had on the FMC, analyzing her significance in the running of the mass organization, and assessing how during these early years of the revolution women’s roles evolved under the guidance of the FMC.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2006.
Advisor: Matt D. Childs, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of History. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 15, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 281 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-05, Section: A, page: 1851. Adviser: Arlene Torres. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 280-293) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

In the industrialized world, sustainable agriculture has remained a fringe agricultural experiment, unable to provide a large-scale alternative model. Cuba provides a case study of a massive agricultural shift to sustainable farming brought about by economic crisis. In 2009, 31 farmers and 6 key informants from 4 provinces in Cuba were interviewed and 12 women participated in a participant driven photography project about their involvement in small-scale agroecological farming. The research found that the inability to purchase imported chemicals and fertilizers has encouraged farmers to innovate their own solutions to maintaining soil, plant, animal and ecosystem health. Institutional support through academic institutions and non-government organizations is facilitating the spread of agroecological education through farmer-to-farmer exchanges. Economically, farming as a profession provides a fair income; although, farmers’ wealth was tied to other industries in their respective regions, and influenced by tourism. The need for housing and land tenure are large barriers, but the government’s opening up of land for farming in usufruct has been a successful strategy for encouraging new farmers. Allowing for subsistence growing, has been historically and is currently an important incentive. Cooperatives allow for the distribution of scarce inputs, provide educational and social opportunities for farmers and can provide retirement benefits, administrative and legal help. However, women tend to participate less in cooperatives, and traditional household roles and machismo are still an undercurrent in the Cuban countryside. Cuba’s agricultural story is rich in lessons that can be applied globally, learned from its requirement to respond quickly to change during economic crisis. These lessons are simple; productivity and happiness increase with worker autonomy, support from government and institutions works better when it is participatory, and social groups whether cooperatives, family or neighbourhoods, provide an essential human support system.
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As a consequence of Cuba’s severe mid-1990s economic crisis and the government’s attempt to remedy it by investing in the tourism sector, a new interactional space has opened up, providing Cubans with the opportunity to form economically advantageous relationships with foreigners. This thesis contributes to the anthropological understanding of the lifeworlds of Cuban women who engage in relationships with foreign men that are sexualized and commercialized to various degrees. These touristic encounters are morally and ideologically contested in late socialist Cuba. They are also characterized by an ambiguous tension, as the women have to manage foreign men’s expectations regarding exchanges of love and money. Based on six months of fieldwork in Havana, I examine the components and developments of such relationships and discuss the women’s particular role. I highlight their agency as they capitalize on touristic desires and fantasies of the exotic and erotic Caribbean Other, simultaneously reproducing a system of sexualized, racialized and gendered inequalities. Through a discussion of the methodologies employed in the research, I question the analytical use of empirical categories in anthropological analysis. I argue that emic categories applied to relationships between Cuban women and foreign men are political and normative markers of social statuses, but are not valid analytical units.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2004.
Advisor: Dr. Vandra Masemann, Florida State University, College of Education, Dept. of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 15, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.

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中國文化大學
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The Cuban teams dominate the women''s volleyball worldwide games in 90''s. Their outstanding performances rely mainly on their well-known great jumping capability and the unique tactics and strategies that is worthy of intensive further research. This study systematically scrutinizes the video tapes and quantitatively analyzes the data with two-way ANOVA. The following research problems were evaluated in the thesis:1. Effects of the serving position and the ball fallen points on the performance.2. Effects of spiking scheme including the spiking position and the spiking pattern on the effectiveness for getting points during competitions.3. Effects of the blocking position and the number of players for interceptive blocking on the performance. 4. Effects of the reception scheme including the setting positions and setting patterns on the performance.The following conclusions were obtained from the study:1. Minimal effect was found due to the serving position and the ball fallen points. 2. Generally, all of the spiking patterns were performed with the following basic strategies: 1) long-distance spikes were accomplished by position 2 and position 4 on the side, 2) mid-to-high spikes were accomplished by position 2 by jumping back with one leg at the center area.3. For the interceptive blocking, position 2 with two blocking players created the most powerful blocking effectiveness. 4. After receiving a ball, spike effectiveness was significantly affected by the setting position and the setting pattern. The Cuban Women''s volleyball team does not have a complicated or manifold strategy. However, they do dominate the volleyball game worldwide. There are some reasons accounted for their outstanding performances. We hope the research result from this study can provide a practical support for the Taiwan''s coaches and researchers to upgrade the level, of our Women''s volleyball teams.

Homes proclaim our social standing and reflect the trend of the times. This project seeks to explore and redefine the relationship between modern homes and modern women who strive for mobile life styles. Modernism and globalization have brought us a new way of living that could have never been imagined before— our workspace and homes are no longer limited to a specific unit but have extended to the entire globe. The physical changes compelled by modernity have also complemented the changing role of women. Since the beginning of the 20th century, modern women have expanded their lives outside of their homes and are playing a much more active role in society. This project is designed for the modern feminist nomads—young women with international background living away from their home country—who are passionate about what they do professionally and proud of the women they are. The project will allow these women to determine what home means to them, and also allow their artifacts and concept of home to travel with them and, through the process, shape who they are. This project is a series of 5 different scales of designs: the Z-Cases, the Z-Cubes, the Z-Units, the Z-Communities, and the Z-Global Business Model. This series of designs is developed to better aid the life on the move for the feminist nomads, by making traveling , moving, and adjusting to a new community a much easier process.

This thesis examines contemporary musical and literary representations of female fatness in the Hispanic Caribbean. Chapter I explores the stereotype of a greater acceptance and valorization of fatness within the African Diaspora using contemporary feminist scholarship on cultural aesthetics and the body. Fatness is discussed as being both sexually transgressive and traditionally feminine. Chapter II juxtaposes male representations of “la gorda” in the lyrics of popular music of from Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico with the feminist politics of underground hip hop. Chapter III analyzes Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s hyperbolic representation of La Estrella, his fictionalization of Cuban bolero singer Fredy Rodriguez, in Ella cantaba boleros y “Metafinal” (1996). The aquatic subtexts and grotesque characterization of La Estrella’s body construct her as an icon of musical authenticity and exceptionality as well as a symbol of strength and resistance.

Jesus falou em parábolas para revelar os mistérios do Reino de Deus. Lucas, reco-lhendo os dados da tradição, incorpora as parábolas do Reino, as únicas em todo o terceiro Evangelho, no contexto exclusivo da cura da mulher recurvada. O evangelista quer, portan-to, que o leitor compreenda o significado das parábolas naquele contexto particular. Ade-mais, a própria construção gramatical do texto de Lc 13,10-21 permite estabelecer uma relação de continuidade entre a narrativa primária e o discurso parabólico. Assim, no pre-sente trabalho, analisa-se a relação entre os acontecimentos narrados naquele sábado e naquela sinagoga. Segundo o método narrativo, destacam-se os elementos literários e as imagens cénicas que o texto sugere, propondo-se uma leitura do conteúdo parabólico em estrita relação com os acontecimentos anteriores. Se Jesus falou em parábolas sobre o Rei-no de Deus, a Sua própria acção revela a presença actual e operante do Reino.
Jesus spoke in parables to reveal the mysteries of God’s Kingdom. Luke, collecting the data of tradition, attaches the Kingdom’s parables, the only ones in all third Gospel, in the exclusive context of the cure of the crippled woman. The evangelist, then, wants the meaning of the parables to be understood by the reader in that particular context. Moreo-ver, the grammatical construction of Lk 13:10-21 allows establishing a continuity relation-ship between the primary narrative and the parabolic speech. Therefore, in the present work, it is analyzed the relationship between the events related in that same Saturday and same synagogue. According to the narrative method, there are highlighted the literary ele-ments and the scenic images that the text suggests, proposing a reading of the parabolic content in strict relation with the previous events. If Jesus spoke in parables about the Kingdom’s God, His own action reveals the current and operant presence of the Kingdom.

Sanctae modernae in diebus nostris? - Hagiographische Konzeptionen weiblicher vita religiosa im Umfeld der Mendikanten Die Dissertationsschrift ergründet die Entwürfe weiblicher Heiligkeit im Umfeld der Bettelorden. Die Frauenviten der Mendikanten boten sich für eine vergleichende Untersuchung an, da sie eine hagiographische Neuheit darstellten, insofern ein Großteil der verehrten Frauen Laien waren. In Anbetracht dessen, dass die Mendikanten einen erheblichen Beitrag zur Moralisierung der mittelalterlichen Gesellschaft und zur Verbreitung kirchlicher Ordnungs- und Normierungskonzepte geleistet haben, wurde ich von der Frage geleitet, ob sich mit den Bettelorden die Funktion der Hagiographie gewandelt hat, so dass sie stärker als zuvor zur sittlichen Besserung der Gläubigen eingesetzt wurde. Die Untersuchung der weiblichen Heiligenviten der Mendikanten hat gezeigt, dass die Aussageabsichten der Texte jeweils andere waren und die Schriften, um mit Gert Melville (Geltungsgeschichten) zu sprechen, sehr „differente Funktionen der Legitimierung, der Konsolidierung, der Integration und Abgrenzung“ einnahmen, was zu recht unterschiedlichen „Ausgestaltungen der für relevant angesehenen Vergangenheitspartien“ geführt hat. Um die Texte dennoch vergleichen zu können, habe ich sie in Gruppen unterteilt, entsprechend ihrer im Text dominierenden Funktionsweise : ♦ Viten in denen die paränetische Funktion im Vordergrund steht ♦ Viten in denen die Rechtfertigung einer bestimmten Lebensweise im Vordergrund steht ♦ Viten mit prestigestiftender Funktion ♦ Multifunktionale Viten Für die weitere Forschung ist es ratsam, sich nur einem dieser Typen zuzuwenden. Für die Betrachtung der paränetischen Viten wäre ein Vergleich mit der entsprechenden Predigtliteratur deutlich aufschlussreicher. Der Dominikaner Thomas von Cantimpré, der sich mit jedem Satz seiner Werke als Seelsorger zu erkennen gibt, gehört zu den am besten untersuchten Hagiographen heiliger Frauen. Bislang galten seine Werke als typische Beispiele mendikantischer Vitenschreibung. Dies war auch der Grund, dass die Dissertationsschrift mit ihm bzw. dem in seinem Umfeld wirkenden Jakob von Vitry einsetzt. Die vergleichende Untersuchung aller weiblichen Heiligenviten zeigt, dass Thomas im 13. Jahrhundert noch eine Ausnahmeerscheinung war, da die Werke in denen die Paränese im Vordergrund steht, nur einen Teil der hagiographischen Lebensbeschreibungen betrifft. Fazit: Auch im Zeitalter der Bettelorden erfüllte die Textsorte vor allem klassische Funktionen, indem sie in erster Linie der Andacht und Heilsvergewisserung diente, darüber hinaus jedoch auch ganz pragmatische Absichten verfolgte. Dynastische Interessen trugen ebenso wie innerklösterliche Probleme, kirchliche Anordnungen (Klausurierung weiblicher Religioser, Verurteilung der häretischen Spiritualen), ordensinterne Bestimmungen (beispielsweise solche, die regelten, wie mit der cura monialium zu verfahren sei) oder wichtige politische Ereignisse (die Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Guelfen und Ghibellinen in Florenz) zur Entstehung der Schriften bei. In Hinblick auf die bedeutende Rolle die das Papsttum, einzelne Dynastien, Kommunen oder Klöster bei der Abfassung einer Vita gespielt haben, glaube ich, dass es sich bei den jeweiligen Heiligkeitkonzeptionen mehr um zeittypische oder auch regionale Phänomene (Modeerscheinungen) den originär mendikantische Heiligkeitskonzeptionen handelt. Die in den Heiligenviten präsentierten Leitideen sowie die Art der Darstellung richteten sich vor allem nach der Funktion der Texte bzw. danach für wen (welche Rezipienten) die Werke bestimmt waren. So ist der laikale Rezipientenkreis der Grund dafür, dass sich die meisten Elisabethviten durch eine leicht verständliche Ausdrucksweise und ein klares Heiligenbild auszeichnen. Wohingegen die Werke des Thomas von Cantimpré, der sich als Novizenmeister zunächst an seine eigenen Mitbrüder richtet, einem komplexen Aufbau folgen und kunstvoll stilisiert sind. Einfluss auf die Gestaltung der Schriften hatten außerdem die sehr unterschiedlichen biographischen Hintergründe der Hagiographen. Denn der hochrangige Ordensvertreter und Vertraute der Kurie betätigte sich ebenso als Vitenautor (Jakob von Vitry und Konrad von Marburg waren Kreuzzugsprediger, Konrad überdies Inquisitor, Thomas von Cantimpré war Lektor, Thomas von Celano war der erste offizielle Ordenschronist des Franziskanerordens, Dietrich von Apolda war der Hagiograph des heiligen Dominikus) wie der politisch unbedeutende Bruder, den nicht sein Orden, sondern die persönliche intensive Beziehung zur Beichttochter zum Schreiben trieb. Neben dem unterschiedlichen Bildungsgrad der Autoren wirkten sich außerdem die starken regionalen Unterschiede auf die Qualität der Texte aus. So hatte das Verfassen von Heiligenviten in Brabant eine lange Tradition, während es in Ungarn etwas völlig Neues war. Auch regionale Besonderheiten hatten Einfluss auf die thematische Aufbereitung der Schriften. So kam dem Bußgedanken wie auch der Seelenrettung aus dem Fegefeuer in den brabanter Schriften besondere Bedeutung zu, was auf die regionale Nähe zur Pariser Universität zurückzuführen ist, an der damals genau jene Themen diskutiert wurden. Als weiteres Ergebnis der Untersuchung ist somit festzuhalten, dass die in den Frauenviten der Bettelorden aufgezeigten Leitideen mehr über die Rezipienten und Autoren aussagen, als über die Heiligen, die sie beschreiben. Dieser Befund widerlegt die in der Frauen- und Mentalitätsforschung gängige These, wonach die Frauenviten typisch weibliche Frömmigkeitsformen darstellen. Für die Beurteilung der Texte ist es vielmehr entscheidend, ob sie für ein laikales, monastisches oder klerikales Publikum verfasst wurden.:1. Einleitung 7 1.1. Fragestellung und Erkenntnisziel 9 1.2. Die Heiligenviten als Quellen 10 1.3. Der Weg der bisherigen Forschung 12 A In Bezug auf die hagiographischen Quellen 12 B Speziell zu den Frauenviten 15 C Die Frauenviten und die weibliche vita religiosa in der historischen Ordensforschung 20 1.4. Aufbau der Arbeit 23 1.5. Zeitlicher Rahmen der Untersuchung 24 2. Einstieg ins Thema 24 2.1. Heiligkeitskonzeptionen im Wandel der Geschichte 24 2.2. Apokalyptische Zustände in Kirche und Welt und die Hoffnung auf Erneuerung- Der geschichtliche Kontext der Untersuchung Die Herausbildung der Moraltheologie und ihr Einfluss auf die Bußbewegung 27 Die Einbindung der Laien in die Kirchenhierachie – Die Bestätigung der Humiliaten 31 Die Anfänge der Franziskaner und Dominikaner – Zwei unterschiedliche mendikantische Lebensformen 33 Büßer, Beginen und Terziaren – Der Versuch ihrer Regulierung 34 Pastorale Neuerungen – Die Voraussetzungen für die Ausbreitung des Bußideals 36 Das Ziel der Mendikanten – Die Erneuerung von Kirche und Gesellschaft 38 3. Das hagiographische Vokabular: Jakob von Vitry und seine Vita für die Begine Maria von Oignies (1215) 39 3.1. Zum Leben und den Schriften des Jakob von Vitry (um 1160/70 – 1240) 40 3.2. Das Leben der Maria von Oignies (1177-1213) 48 3.3. Aufbau, Inhalt und didaktische Implikationen der Vita Mariae Oigniacensis 49 Sponsa Christi – Imitatio Mariae 50 Maria und Martha – Vita activa versus vita contemplativa 53 Die Büßerin Maria Magdalena als Nachahmungsmodell 54 Die Verehrung der Eucharistie 58 3.4. Die Vita Mariae Oigniacensis – Aufforderung zur Buße, orthodoxe Propagandaschrift gegen die Lehre der Katharer und Exempelsammlung für die Laienpredigt, Zu den Intentionen des Hagiographen 60 4. Die Frauenviten der Dominikaner 64 4.1. Das Supplement zur Vita Mariae Oigniacensis (um 1231): „Das Heil wirkt in Brabant“ – Ein hagiographischer Gegenentwurf zum Kurienhof in Rom des Dominikaners Thomas von Cantimpré 64 4.1.1. Zu Thomas von Cantimpré (um 1201 - um 1270/72) 64 4.1.2. Aufbau, Inhalt und Implikationen des Supplements 67 Die Entwicklung des Kults um Maria von Oignies 69 4.1.3. Das Supplement zur Vita Mariae Oigniacensis – Jakob von Vitry und sein Verrat an der vita apostolica 71 4.2. Eine kuriose Heilige? - Die Vita Christinae Mirabilis (um 1232, geändert 1239-40) 71 4.2.1. Das Leben der Christina von St. Trond (um 1150-1224) und die Entwicklung ihres Heiligenkultes 72 4.2.2. Aufbau, Inhalt und didaktische Implikationen der Vita Christinae Mirabilis 73 Die drei Stadien geistlichen Lebens nach Wilhelm von Saint Thierry 74 Christinas Seele in ihrem animalischen Stadium 75 Die Seele im verstandesmäßigen – rationalen Stadium 77 Die Seele im geistigen – spirituellen Stadium 77 imitatio christi - vita apostolica 78 4.2.3. Buße für die erlösungsbedürftige Menschheit: Die Vita Christinae - Ein didaktisches Instrument zur Vermittlung von Buß- und Fegefeuerlehre oder ein Hilfsmittel für die Laienpredigt? 79 4.3. Die Vita Margaretae Ypris (um 1240) – Ein Leben getreu nach den evangelischen Räten: Armut, Keuschheit und Gehorsam 81 4.3.1. Das Leben der Margareta von Ypern (1216-1237) 81 4.3.2. Aufbau, Inhalt und didaktische Implikationen der Vita Margarete de Ypris 82 4.3.3. Die Vita Margarete de Ypris - Ein Lehrbuch für die cura animarum? Der ordenspolitische Hintergrund der Vita Margarete 87 4.4. Das Klosterleben als oberste Stufe der Christusnachfolge und Idealform der vita religiosa - Die Vita Lutgardis Aquiriensis (nach 1248, beendet 1262) 90 4.4.1. Das Leben der Lutgard von Aywières (1182-1246) 91 Die Entwicklung des Lutgard Kults 92 4.4.2. Aufbau, Inhalt und didaktische Implikationen der Vita Lutgardis Aquiriensis 94 Buch I: ecclesia in purgatorio 94 vita activa oder vita contemplativa? 96 II. Buch: ecclesia militans 98 III. Buch: vita perfecta 100 4.4.3. Die Vita Lutgardis - Ein Nachahmungsmodell für Regulierte Nonnen 101 4.5. Das Exemplum der Yolanda von Vianden im Bonum universale de apibus (um 1257 - 1263) 104 4.6. Die Vita für Yolanda von Vianden (spätes 13. Jahrhundert) 106 4.6.1. Zum Autor der Vita Bruder Hermann (um 1250-1308) 106 4.6.2. Zum Leben der Yolanda von Vianden (1231-1283) 107 Yolandas kultische Verehrung 109 4.6.3. Zum Inhalt der Vita 111 4.6.4. Die Yolandavita – Eine Werbeschrift für potentielle Stifter 117 Warum Walther von Meisenburg das Dominikanerinnenkloster Marienthal empfahl 119 Yolandas Klostereintritt vor dem Hintergrund der damaligen dominikanischen Frauenpolitik 121 Die Darstellung religiöser Gemeinschaften in der Yolanda- Vita als Quelle für die religiöse Konkurrenzsituation 123 Die Beziehungen der Frauengemeinschaften untereinander 126 Exkurs: Die identitätsstiftende Funktion der Mystik 127 4.7. Die Vita Margarete contracta (Entstehungszeit unsicher, wahrscheinlich 2. Hälfte 13. Jahrhundert) 127 4.7.1. Zum Autor der Vita, dem Dominikanerbruder Johannes (Lebensdaten unbekannt) 129 4.7.2. Zum Leben der Margareta von Magdeburg (Lebensdaten ungewiss, vermutlich Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts) 131 4.7.3. Aufbau und Inhalt der Vita Margarete contracte 133 Imitatio Christi – Margaretas Lebens- und Leidensweg 3 Die Verworfenheit 134 Vita activa 134 Margaretas Buße 135 Die Reinigung Margaretas 135 Am Kreuz mit Christus – Margareta nimmt das Leid als Gabe Gottes an 136 Bruder Johannes wird Margaretas Beichtvater – Wie aus anfänglichen Missverständnissen eine spirituelle Freundschaft entsteht 137 Margareta als zweite Maria 139 Margaretas Missachtung und Verleumdung durch die Menschen 139 Vita perfecta 141 4.7.4. Die Vita der Margareta contracta – Eine theologische Lehrschrift 142 4.8. Die Legenda b. Margaritae de Ungaria (1274) 146 4.8.1. Zur Autorschaft der Margaretenlegende 146 4.8.2. Zum Leben der Margareta von Ungarn (1242-1270, Heiligsprechung 1934) 146 Bemühungen um Margaretas Heiligsprechung 149 Der Aufschwung des Margaretenkults in Italien und in den deutschsprachigen Regionen 151 4.8.3. Der Inhalt der Legenda b. Margaritae de Ungaria (Legenda vetus) 154 4.8.4. Imitatio Elisabeth: Die Dominikanerin Margareta von Ungarn 158 Die Einstellung des Dominikanerordens zu den Frauen 159 Exkurs: Die Aufgabe der Frauen im Dominikanerorden - Die Briefe Jordans von Sachsen an Diana von Andalo 162 Exkurs: Die Dominikanische Heiligenverehrung 164 5. Das Zeitalter der Franziskaner: Heilige Frauen in der Nachfolge des Poverello: Elisabeth von Thüringen (1207-1231), Humiliana Cerchi (1219-1246), Klara von Assisi (1193-1253), Isabella von Frankreich (1224-1269) und Douceline von Digne (um 1214-1274) 166 5.1. Elisabeth von Thüringen – Leben, kultische Verehrung und hagiographische Schriften 166 5.1.1. Das Leben der heiligen Elisabeth von Thüringen 168 Elisabeth und die Franziskaner 169 Elisabeths Kanonisation und die Entwicklung ihres Heiligenkultes 172 Zum Inhalt der Heiligsprechungsbulle Gloriosus in maiestate 174 Der Brief Papst Gregors IX. an die Königin Beatrix von Kastilien mit der Aufforderung der Heiligen Elisabeth nachzufolgen 175 Der Kniefall des Kaisers vor der Heiligen 175 Der Brief des Kaisers an die Franziskaner und der Deutsche Orden als Verwalter der Elisabethkultstätten 176 Elisabeth eine Heilige für alle 178 Die Exempelfunktion der Heiligen für die Frauen des Hochadels 180 In Nachahmung der heiligen Elisabeth – Das Entstehen „Heiliger Höfe“ 182 Ausdruck der Elisabethverehrung – Die Förderung des Franziskanerordens und seines weiblichen Ordenszweigs durch die europäischen Herrscherhäuser 183 5.1.2. Die Summa vitae des Konrad von Marburg (1232) 185 5.1.3. Zu Konrad von Marburg (um 1180/90-1233) 186 5.1.4. Der Inhalt der Summa vitae 189 5.1.5. Die Summa vitae – Eine Schrift zur Präsentation einer neuen Heiligen 191 Konrad von Marburg ein Anhänger der Pariser Moraltheologie 192 5.2. Die Vita Sancte Elyzabeth lantgravie (1236/37) 193 5.2.1. Zum Autor Cäsarius von Heisterbach (um 1180 – Mitte 13. Jahrhundert) 194 5.2.2. Aufbau und Inhalt der Vita Sancte Elyzabeth Lantgravie 196 5.2.3. Die Vita Sancte Elyzabeth – Ein Exemplum für Deutschordensritter 203 Die Heilige Elisabeth im Sermo de Translatione des Cäsarius von Heisterbach 204 5.3. Eine weitere Vita Sancte Elyzabeth Lantgravie des Dominikaners Dietrich von Apolda (1289-1294) 205 5.3.1. Zu Dietrich von Apolda (um 1228/29 – nach 1301/02) 208 5.3.2. Aufbau und Inhalt der Vita Sancte Elyzabeth 209 5.3.3. Die Elisabethvita des Dietrich von Apolda – Zwei unterschiedliche Wege der Imitatio Christi 214 Das Dominikanische in Dietrichs Elisabethvita 215 Das Exempel der heiligen Elisabeth in dominikanischen Predigtkompendien 216 5.4. Die Elisabethviten franziskanischer Provenienz 217 5.4.1. Aufbau und Inhalt der `Großen franziskanischen Elisabethvita´ (letztes Viertel 13. Jahrhundert) 221 5.4.2. Elisabeth als Exemplum für die nordeuropäischen Klarissen 223 Elisabeth – Eine franziskanische Heilige 225 Exkurs: Das Exempel des Poverello und seine Aufforderung zur Nachfolge Christi 226 5.5. Die Vita beatae Humilianae de Cerchis (1246-1248) für die Büßerin Emiliana Cerchi 229 5.5.1. Zum Autor der Vita Vito von Cortona († um 1250) und zum Verfasser der Mirakelsammlung Bruder Hippolyt (Lebensdaten unbekannt) 230 5.5.2. Zum Leben der Emiliana Cerchi (1219-1246) 230 Florenz im Ausnahmezustand – Der Beginn der kultischen Verehrung Humilianas als Heilige der Guelfen 231 Die Familie der Cerchi übernimmt die Hauptrolle innerhalb der Humilianaverehrung 234 5.5.3. Aufbau und Inhalt der Vita beatae Humilianae de Cerchis 235 Humiliana wird Terziarin 237 Zwei spätere Mirakelsammlungen: Die Apparitiones post mortem und die Miracula intra triennium ab obitu patrata 242 5.5.4. Die Vita beatae Humilianae de Cerchis – Ein früher Lobpreis auf den Dritten franziskanischen Orden vor dem Hintergrund der Ghibellinsch-Guelfischen Kriege 243 Von den Anfängen der Bußbewegung bis zur Institutionalisierung des Dritten franziskanischen Ordens 244 Der Widerstand im Orden gegen die institutionelle Vereinigung mit den Büßern 246 Die Fürsprecher der Büßer 247 Der Inhalt der Bußregel 248 Der Lebensbericht der seligen Humiliana als Zeugnis für die Bußregel 248 5.6. Die Heilige Klara von Assisi – Die Ausformung ihres Heiligkeitskonzepts bis hin zur Legenda S. Clarae Virginis Assisiensis (1255/56) 250 5.6.1. Klaras Leben und die geschichtlichen Hintergründe der Armen Frauen von San Damiano 251 Klaras Gemeinschaft San Damiano und der päpstliche Damiansorden 254 Die Vielfalt der Regeln 260 Klaras Tod und ihre Heiligsprechung 263 Zur kultischen Verehrung der heiligen Klara im Franziskanerorden 263 Der Versuch der Vereinheitlichung – Der Damiansorden wird zum Klarissenorden 264 Bonaventura bindet männlichen und weiblichen Ordenszweigfester aneinander 265 Das Ende der Widersprüche – Klaras Erbe wird zur Reliquie 268 5.6.2. Ein Leben in der Nachfolge des Heiligen Franziskus – Klaras eigene Schriften, Kontroversen um die Echtheit der Texte 269 Die Briefe Klaras an Agnes von Böhmen 273 Ausdruck der Poverellonachfolge – Die Regel der heiligen Klara (Forma vitae sororum pauperum) 276 Klaras Testament 280 5.6.3. Klaras Heiligkeit, wie sie aus den Akten des Kanonisationsprozesses spricht 281 Zu Klaras Franziskusnachfolge 287 Die Kanonisationsurkunde Clara, claris, praeclara 290 5.6.4. Die Legenda Sanctae Clarae Assisiensis – Zum Autor der Legenda Sanctae Clarae Assisiensis Thomas von Celano (um 1190-1260) 292 Der Einfluss Papst Gregors IX. auf die Schriften des Thomas von Celano 294 5.6.5. Aufbau und Inhalt der Legenda Sanctae Clarae Assisiensis 295 5.6.6. Die Legenda Sanctae Clarae Virginis Assisiensis – Ein Nachahmungsmodell für klausurierte Schwestern 301 Klara - Eine Heilige für die Nonnen des Damians-/Klarissenordens 302 Exkurs: Die Ausbreitung des Damians-/Klarissenordens 305 5.7. La Vie de la bienheureuse Isabelle de France soeur du roy S. Loys fondatrice de Longchamp (1283) 310 5.7.1. Zur Autorin der Vita Agnes von Harcourt (1240er - 1291) 310 Der Brief der Agnes von Harcourt an König Ludwig IX. und Longchamp 312 Karl von Anjou beauftragt Agnes mit der Abfassung der Isabellavita 313 5.7.2. Zum Leben Isabellas von Frankreich 314 Sanctae virginitatis propositum und andere Schriftstücke als Zeugnisse päpstlichen Bemühens um die Gunst der Königstochter 315 Isabellas Prestige in den Augen der Franziskaner 318 Zur Isabellaregel 325 Zum Kult um Isabella von Frankreich 326 5.7.3. Aufbau und Inhalt von La vie de notre saincte et benoite dame et mere Madame Yzabeau de France 328 5.7.4. Die Vita der Isabella von Frankreich – Ein Zeugnis dynastischer Memoria vor dem Hintergrund der Heiligenpolitik Karls von Anjou 333 Isabella – Heilige, aber nicht Nonne von Longchamp 334 Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zu den anderen Anhängerinnen des heiligen Franziskus 336 Die Verbreitung der Isabellaregel 337 5.8. Li Vida de la benaurada Sancta Doucelina, Mayre de las Donnas de Robaut (um 1297/ nach 1311 vor 1315) 339 5.8.1. Zur Textentstehung und der Frage der Verfasserschaft 340 Zur mutmaßlichen Hagiographin Filipa von Porcellet 342 5.8.2. Zum Leben der Douceline von Digne (um 1215-1274) 343 Die Roubauder Beginengemeinschaft 344 Doucelines Kultische Verehrung, Verdächtigungen und der Fortbestand der Kommunität 347 Zum Einfluss Hugos von Digne auf die Lebensweise der Frauen von Roubaud 349 5.8.3. Aufbau und Inhalt von Li Vida de la benaurada Sancta Doucelina 352 5.8.4. Li Vida de la benaurada Sancta Doucelina – Eine Legitimationsschrift für den in Verdacht geratenen Beginenkonvent von Roubaud 361 Die franziskanische Inquisition in Südfrankreich 363 Die Legitimationsstrategie der Roubauder Beginen – Bonaventuras Franziskusvita 364 Franziskanisch ja, aber nicht klarianisch 365 Die Anbindung der Roubauder Beginen an Karl von Anjou und andere weltliche Herrscher 366 6. Schlussbetrachtung 368 Frauenviten als institutionelle Steuerungs- und Normierungsinstrumente 374 Rezipienten und Hagiographen – Funktionale und regionale Unterschiede in der Vitenliteratur 376 Der Einfluss des Klerus auf das zeitgenössische Heiligenbild – Predigt und cura mulierum 377 Dominikanische und franziskanische Frauenviten – Zwei differente Darstellungsweisen weiblicher Heiligkeit 379 Die franziskanische Hagiographie 381 Die dominikanische Hagiographie 382 7. Abkürzungsverzeichnis 385 8. Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis 386 Verzeichnis der untersuchten Heiligenviten 386 Weitere Quellen 389 Literatur 399 Zeitschriften und Reihen 437