Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe : : New Perspectives /

Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe : : New Perspectives / / ed. by Felice Lifshitz, Lisa M. Bitel.

In Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe, six historians explore how medieval people professed Christianity, how they performed gender, and how the two coincided. Many of the daily religious decisions people made were influenced by gender roles, the authors contend. Women's pious donations...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
MitwirkendeR:
Bitel, Lisa M.,
Elliott, Dyan,
Karras, Ruth Mazo,
Lifshitz, Felice,
Murray, Jacqueline,
Schulenburg, Jane Tibbetts,
HerausgeberIn:
Bitel, Lisa M.,
Lifshitz, Felice,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2008
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (168 p.) :; 3 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Convent Ruins And Christian Profession
  • Chapter 1. Tertullian, The Angelic Life, And The Bride Of Christ
  • Chapter 2. One Flesh, Two Sexes, Three Genders?
  • Chapter 3. Thomas Aquinas's Chastity Belt
  • Chapter 4. Women's Monasteries And Sacred Space
  • Chapter 5. Priestly Women, Virginal Men
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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