Dataset of Powerful Piety. Practices of Female Abbatial Authority in Medieval Europe (c. 1200-1450)

This data set formed the basis of the research project \"Powerful Piety. Practices of Female Abbatial Authority in Medieval Europe (c. 1200-1450)\" which revises historiographical notions of female agency through a social history of nunneries and their practices of regal and feudal authority. Based on the data collected and evaluated for convents located in today's Switzerland, Germany and France, the project reveals late medieval nunneries as powerful religious, political, and economic institutions. On a societal level, this project shows that aristocratic abbesses who practiced feudal and even regal authority were an omnipresent sight in medieval Europe. From an economic history perspective, the project sheds light on the long-term strategies and economic adaptations of select convents that allowed them to exist for many centuries in dynamically changing economic settings. The database contains the information taken from several thousand charters of the women convents of Buchau, Notre-Dame de Soissons, Fraumünster of Zurich, and Klingental of Basel. The database is sorted by Excel sheets dealing with persons, institutions, regalia and rights, conflicts, incomes, credits, memoria and possessions of the respective institutions. It is sorted by main IDs of the respective categories.本数据集为研究项目《威权虔诚：中世纪欧洲（约1200-1450年）女性女隐修院院长权威的实践》（Powerful Piety. Practices of Female Abbatial Authority in Medieval Europe (c. 1200-1450)）提供了核心数据支撑。该项目通过梳理女修道院的社会史及其王权与封建权威实践，修正了学界关于女性能动性的既有史学认知。本研究依托针对现今瑞士、德国与法国境内女修道院收集并评估的数据集，揭示出中世纪晚期女修道院实为兼具宗教、政治与经济属性的强势机构。从社会维度来看，本研究表明，行使封建乃至王权权威的贵族女隐修院院长，在中世纪欧洲屡见不鲜。从经济史视角出发，本研究阐明了部分经筛选的女修道院的长期经营策略与经济调适路径，使其得以在动态变迁的经济环境中存续数百年之久。本数据库收录了来自布高女修道院（Buchau）、苏瓦松圣母院（Notre-Dame de Soissons）、苏黎世弗劳恩明斯特女修道院（Fraumünster of Zurich）以及巴塞尔克林根塔尔女修道院（Klingental of Basel）的数千份特许状相关信息。本数据库以Excel工作表进行分类，涵盖人物、机构、礼器与特权、冲突、收入、信贷、追思名录以及各机构资产等模块，并按对应分类的主ID完成排序。