Agency of religious women in the German-speaking areas in the southwestern part of the medieval Empire 1350-1550

拟议的项目审查了宗教妇女采取行动（代理）的可能性，重点是斯特拉斯堡中世纪晚期穷克拉拉社区的例子。从这个社区（1411年至1413年）的一份特殊档案资料中，这项研究调查了女性对性侵犯后的处理，这是一个在该市和该地区广为人知的案件。这些资料来源可以进行深入分析- -一项微观研究- -揭示个别妇女、社区内各小群体和整个社区的应付策略。除了揭示妇女个人和团体所采取的一系列具体行动战略外，这些文本还提供了对妇女所经历的主观现实的洞察；我们看到了引导他们的行为和冲动的利益（荣誉、虔诚、情感），以及这些行为的制度和社会框架（秩序、城市、家庭）。这项微观研究的结果将有助于目前对中世纪帝国西南地区德语区宗教妇女领域的研究，以及对中世纪晚期女性能力性的一般论述。

The proposed project examines the possibilities for action (agency) of religious women, focusing on the example of the late medieval community of Poor Clares in Strasbourg. Moving out from an exceptional collection of archival sources from this community (1411-1413), the study examines the women`s management of the aftermath of a sexual assault, a case that was widely known in the city and in the region. The sources allow for an in-depth analysis - a micro-study - that reveals the coping strategies of individual women, of various sub-groups within the community, and of the community as a whole. In addition to revealing an array of concrete strategies for action pursued both by individual women and by groups, these texts offer insight into the subjective reality that the women experienced; we see the interests that guided their actions, their impulses (honor, piety, emotions), and the institutional and social frameworks for those actions (Order, city, family). The results of this micro-study will contribute to the current body of research in the field of religious women in the German-speaking parts in the southwestern area of the medieval Empire, as well as to the general discourse on female agency in the late Middle Ages.