Erin Jordan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3977797 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erin Jordan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erin |
| FAMILY NAME | Jordan |
| SIGNATURE | JORDAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Old Dominion University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5742-3686 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
If you build him, he will build
This study explores how rural women mobilize discourses and practices from their village community bank to shape the construction of both “house” and “home”. I argue that women in rural Moshi, Tanzania, centre themselves in house construction by foregrounding their skills in budgeting, saving, and making plans, and in the home by centring trust, transparency, and their own agency in developing more equal marriage partners. They apply community ba…
Actions speak louder than words
Fiona J. Griffiths. Nuns’ Priests’ Tales
Historians have long ascribed to a view of medieval monasticism that posited an underlying tension, if not outright hostility, between men and women, stemming largely from the preoccupation of twelfth-century reformers with the ideal of clerical celibacy. Women, including nuns, were identified as the source of sexual pollution, positioned by ecclesiastical leaders as adversaries in the battle for spiritual perfection. The path to victory lay in a…
Transforming the landscape
This article investigates the extent to which women’s monastic communities intervened in the natural landscape of the southern Low Countries in the Middle Ages, irrevocably transforming the environment in their efforts to support their communities. Focusing on the county of Flanders in particular, it contributes to an expanding historiography that traces the impact of human intervention on the natural world in the pre-modern period. Simultaneousl…
Nola Life Stories
Roving Nuns and Cistercian Realities
This article uses evidence from Cistercian abbeys in Flanders and Hainaut during the thirteenth century to reconsider the role of enclosure policies in shaping the experience of religious women. The frequency with which nuns appear in the charters outside of their cloisters, when combined with the developments in medieval spirituality that produced an array of lay religious groups during this period, suggests that Cistercian policy considered enc…
Gender Concerns
The Cistercian order, which had its origins in the late eleventh century, transformed the spiritual landscape of western Europe. The order's insistence on a return to the austerity and simplicity that had originally informed Benedictine life reenergized monasticism, spawning hundreds of new abbeys within decades. By the beginning of the thirteenth century, the Cistercians dominated monastic life, surpassing their black-robed predecessors in terms…
Female Founders
The many houses of Cistercian nuns founded in Flanders and Hainaut by the mid thirteenth century produced large numbers of documents about their female founders and patrons. Although some of these abbeys owed their foundation to the countesses Jeanne and Marguerite of Flanders, analysis here concentrates on the lives and foundations of other noblewomen who continued to have power over property in the thirteenth century. Their religious patronage …
The “Abduction” of Ida of Boulogne
Research Article| February 01 2007 The “Abduction” of Ida of Boulogne: Assessing Women's Agency in Thirteenth-Century France Erin L. Jordan Erin L. Jordan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2007) 30 (1): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-2006-017 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Erin L. Jordan; The “Abduction” of Ida of Boulogn…
Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages
As sisters and successive countesses of Flanders and Hainaut in the thirteenth century, Jeanne and Marguerite actively shaped the political landscape of northern Europe, and compiled an impressive record of monastic patronage. By examining a significant corpus of secular and monastic charters, this study provides a more complex understanding of the role of religious patronage in medieval society, and illuminates concerns specific to powerful wome…
Actions speak louder than words
Transforming the landscape
This article investigates the extent to which women’s monastic communities intervened in the natural landscape of the southern Low Countries in the Middle Ages, irrevocably transforming the environment in their efforts to support their communities. Focusing on the county of Flanders in particular, it contributes to an expanding historiography that traces the impact of human intervention on the natural world in the pre-modern period. Simultaneousl…
Gender Concerns
The Cistercian order, which had its origins in the late eleventh century, transformed the spiritual landscape of western Europe. The order's insistence on a return to the austerity and simplicity that had originally informed Benedictine life reenergized monasticism, spawning hundreds of new abbeys within decades. By the beginning of the thirteenth century, the Cistercians dominated monastic life, surpassing their black-robed predecessors in terms…
The “Abduction” of Ida of Boulogne
Research Article| February 01 2007 The “Abduction” of Ida of Boulogne: Assessing Women's Agency in Thirteenth-Century France Erin L. Jordan Erin L. Jordan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2007) 30 (1): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-2006-017 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Erin L. Jordan; The “Abduction” of Ida of Boulogn…
Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages
As sisters and successive countesses of Flanders and Hainaut in the thirteenth century, Jeanne and Marguerite actively shaped the political landscape of northern Europe, and compiled an impressive record of monastic patronage. By examining a significant corpus of secular and monastic charters, this study provides a more complex understanding of the role of religious patronage in medieval society, and illuminates concerns specific to powerful wome…
The “Abduction” of Ida of Boulogne
Research Article| February 01 2007 The “Abduction” of Ida of Boulogne: Assessing Women's Agency in Thirteenth-Century France Erin L. Jordan Erin L. Jordan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2007) 30 (1): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-2006-017 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Erin L. Jordan; The “Abduction” of Ida of Boulogn…
Female Founders
The many houses of Cistercian nuns founded in Flanders and Hainaut by the mid thirteenth century produced large numbers of documents about their female founders and patrons. Although some of these abbeys owed their foundation to the countesses Jeanne and Marguerite of Flanders, analysis here concentrates on the lives and foundations of other noblewomen who continued to have power over property in the thirteenth century. Their religious patronage …
Roving Nuns and Cistercian Realities
This article uses evidence from Cistercian abbeys in Flanders and Hainaut during the thirteenth century to reconsider the role of enclosure policies in shaping the experience of religious women. The frequency with which nuns appear in the charters outside of their cloisters, when combined with the developments in medieval spirituality that produced an array of lay religious groups during this period, suggests that Cistercian policy considered enc…
Gender Concerns
The Cistercian order, which had its origins in the late eleventh century, transformed the spiritual landscape of western Europe. The order's insistence on a return to the austerity and simplicity that had originally informed Benedictine life reenergized monasticism, spawning hundreds of new abbeys within decades. By the beginning of the thirteenth century, the Cistercians dominated monastic life, surpassing their black-robed predecessors in terms…
Nola Life Stories
Transforming the landscape
This article investigates the extent to which women’s monastic communities intervened in the natural landscape of the southern Low Countries in the Middle Ages, irrevocably transforming the environment in their efforts to support their communities. Focusing on the county of Flanders in particular, it contributes to an expanding historiography that traces the impact of human intervention on the natural world in the pre-modern period. Simultaneousl…
Fiona J. Griffiths. Nuns’ Priests’ Tales
Historians have long ascribed to a view of medieval monasticism that posited an underlying tension, if not outright hostility, between men and women, stemming largely from the preoccupation of twelfth-century reformers with the ideal of clerical celibacy. Women, including nuns, were identified as the source of sexual pollution, positioned by ecclesiastical leaders as adversaries in the battle for spiritual perfection. The path to victory lay in a…
Actions speak louder than words
If you build him, he will build
This study explores how rural women mobilize discourses and practices from their village community bank to shape the construction of both “house” and “home”. I argue that women in rural Moshi, Tanzania, centre themselves in house construction by foregrounding their skills in budgeting, saving, and making plans, and in the home by centring trust, transparency, and their own agency in developing more equal marriage partners. They apply community ba…
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