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" Gender and Christianity in medieval Europe : "
edited by Lisa M. Bitel and Felice Lifshitz.
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BL
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842742
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Gender and Christianity in medieval Europe : : new perspectives /\ edited by Lisa M. Bitel and Felice Lifshitz.
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Philadelphia :: University of Pennsylvania Press,, [2008]
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, ©2008
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The Middle Ages series
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158 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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0812220137
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: 0812240693
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: 9780812220131
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: 9780812240696
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-143) and index.
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| Contents
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Convent ruins and Christian profession : toward a methodology for the history of religion and gender / Lisa M. Bitel -- Tertullian, the angelic life, and the bride of Christ / Dyan Elliot -- One flesh, two sexes, three genders? / Jacqueline Murray -- Thomas Aquinas's chastity belt : clerical masculinity in medieval Europe / Ruth Mazo Karras -- Women's monasteries and sacred space : the promotion of saints' cults and miracles / Jane Tibbetts Schulenberg -- Priestly women, virginal men : litanies and their discontents / Felice Lifshitz.
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"In Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe, six historians seek to explain the convergence of religion and gender in medieval Christendom. Collectively their essays explore how medieval people professed Christianity, how they performed gender, and how the two coincided." "Whereas previous scholarship has tended to focus exclusively either on masculinity or on aristocratic women, the authors define their topic to include the study of all genders. Likewise, their essays strive for a generous definition of religious history, which has too often been a history of its most visible participants and dominant discourses. Thus, Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe steps back from received assumptions about religion, gender, and history by considering what the terms "woman," "man," and "religious" truly mean for historians, ultimately enhancing our understanding of the gendered implications of every pious thought and ritual gesture of medieval Christians."--Jacket.
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Sex role-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.
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Geschlechterrolle
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Kirche
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Sex role-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.
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Sekseverschillen.
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Vroege christendom.
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Europe, Church history, 600-1500.
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Europa (geografie)
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Europa.
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Europe.
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274/.03082
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BT708.G45 2008
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11.52bcl
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11.52.bcl
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| Added Entry
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Bitel, Lisa M.,1958-
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Lifshitz, Felice,1959-
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| Cover Title
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Gender & Christianity in medieval Europe
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