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The Profession of Widowhood : Widows, Pastoral Care, and Medieval Models of Holiness /
"The profession of widowhood explores how the idea of 'true' widowhood was central to pre-modern ideas concerning marriage and of female identity more generally. The medieval figure of the Christian vere vidua or 'good' widow evolved from and reinforced ancient social and re...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
The Catholic University of America Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Creating the widow in the early church
- The widow and the cloister: early medieval hagiography
- The veil and the vow: professed widowhood in canon law and liturgical manuscripts
- Chaste widows and the penitential ethos in later medieval hagiography
- Managing the matron: widowhood in medieval sermon literature
- Reading widows: grief, memory, and the parody of chaste widowhood in medieval literature
- Like a picture before the eyes: transitions to the early modern world.