From Virile Woman to WomanChrist : : Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature / / Barbara Newman.
Why did hagiographers of the late Middle Ages praise mothers for abandoning small children? How did a group of female mystics come to define themselves as "apostles to the dead" and end by challenging God's right to damn? Why did certain heretics around 1300 venerate a woman as the Ho...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (424 p.) :; 8 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1. Flaws in the Golden Bowl: Gender and Spiritual Formation in the Twelfth Century
- 2. Authority, Authenticity, and the Repression of Heloise
- 3. "Crueel Corage": Child Sacrifice and the Maternal Martyr in Hagiography and Romance
- 4. On the Threshold of the Dead: Purgatory, Hell, and Religious Women
- 5. La mystique courtoise: Thirteenth- Century Beguines and the Art of Love
- 6. Woman Spirit, Woman Pope
- Epilogue
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Appendix A: Religious Literature of Formation, 1075-1225
- Appendix E: Glossary of Religious Women
- Works Cited
- Index