This article discusses the relationship between Dominican nuns and their caregivers (priests and friars) with the help of sister-books written by the Dominican nuns themselves in the first half of the fourteenth century. My main focus will be on analysing the way religious men were described in these books and asking how this discussion was related to the everyday life of the nuns in the Dominican convents. I will suggest that the sister-books can give a new and perhaps unexpected view of the relationships between Dominican nuns and their spiritual caregivers, as these texts suggest that nuns preferred local secular priests over the friars, even though they accepted the religious authority of the latter. I will argue that although the sister-books were literary products, they had a close connection to the lived reality of nuns and that they can tell us about the interaction between nuns and religious men in their service. However, these texts also formed the ideas of nuns and kept the old attitudes towards priests and friars live, even when the interaction might have already taken other forms in practice.

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多米尼加修女社区中的男人 - 讨论牧师和修士的姐妹书

本文借助 14 世纪上半叶多米尼加修女自己撰写的姊妹书，讨论了多米尼加修女与其照料者（神父和修士）之间的关系。我的主要重点将是分析这些书中对宗教人士的描述方式，并询问这种讨论与多米尼加修道院修女的日常生活有何关联。我会建议姐妹书可以对多米尼加修女与其精神照料者之间的关系给出一个新的、或许出乎意料的观点，因为这些文本表明修女更喜欢当地的世俗牧师而不是修士，即使他们接受了修女的宗教权威后者。我会争辩说，虽然姊妹书是文学作品，他们与修女的生活现实有着密切的联系，并且他们可以告诉我们修女和为她们服务的宗教人士之间的互动。然而，这些文本也形成了修女的思想，并保持了对神父和修士的旧态度，即使这种互动在实践中可能已经采取了其他形式。