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Wandering women and holy matrons : women as pilgrims in the later Middle Ages /
Women commonly became pilgrims in Latin Christendom in the later Middle Ages, despite the opposition of contemporary critics. This book explores women's participation in many forms of pilgrimage, and also their construction of positive interpretations of that participation.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Colección: | Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ;
v. 138. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- "She koude muchel of wandrynge by the weye" : pilgrimage and the fear of wandering women
- "The mother prayed, the daughter felt relief" : women and miraculous pilgrimage
- "Stronger than men and braver than knights" : women and devotional pilgrimage
- "She was brought to the shrine by force" : women and compulsory pilgrimage
- "That you cannot see them comes only from an impossibility" : women and non-corporeal pilgrimage
- Home again : conclusions on women as pilgrims in the later Middle Ages.