The Good Women of the Parish : Gender and Religion After the Black Death /

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French argues that medieval laywomen both coped with the chaotic changes following the plague and justified their own changing behavior by participating in local religion. Through active engagement in the parish church, the basic unit of public worship, women promoted and validated their own interes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: French, Katherine L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > Social conditions.
Women > Religious life.
Women > Middle Ages.
Women in church work.
Parishes.
Black death > Social aspects.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Peste noire > Aspect social > Angleterre.
Femmes > Angleterre > Histoire > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Femmes > Angleterre > Conditions sociales > 16e siecle.
Femmes > Vie religieuse > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Paroisses > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Black Death > Social aspects > England.
Women > England > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Women > England > Social conditions > 16th century.
Women in church work > England > History > 16th century.
Women in church work > England > History > To 1500.
Women > Religious life > England > History > 16th century.
Women > Religious life > England > History > To 1500.
Parishes > England > History > 16th century.
Parishes > England > History > To 1500.
England.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "My wedding gown to make a vestment": housekeeping and churchkeeping
  • Hatched, matched, and dispatched: life cycles and the liturgy
  • "My pew in the middle aisle": women at mass
  • Maidens' lights and wives' stores: women's parish groups
  • "To save them from binding on hock Tuesday": the rise of a women's holiday
  • A cross out of bread crumbs: women's piety and impiety
  • Epilogue: women and the Reformation
  • Appendix A: all-women's groups
  • Appendix B: Hocktide celebrations.

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