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A fascinating and detailed account of medieval spirituality from a feminine perspective... The clarity and liveliness of her writing make her scholarly analysis accessible and highly worthwhile (to undergraduates as well as to graduate students) CHOICEFrances Beer's elegantly written study affirms the sanity, autonomy and religious genius of her medieval heroines... (She) provides an ideological context for the choice of the religious life (: unthinking misogyny parroted from classical texts; Germanic and Anglo-Saxon admiration for the 'valorous woman' at the head of the warrior band and for the virgin who despises torture; the disconcerting shift of erotic idealisation of a remote lady and the relationship of love poetry to the praise of Christ the Bridegroom). TIMES HIGHER EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT

A fascinating and detailed account of medieval spirituality from a feminine perspective... The clarity and liveliness of her writing make her scholarly analysis accessible and highly worthwhile (to undergraduates as well as to graduate students) CHOICEFrances Beer's elegantly written study affirms the sanity, autonomy and religious genius of her medieval heroines... (She) provides an ideological context for the choice of the religious life (: unthinking misogyny parroted from classical texts; Germanic and Anglo-Saxon admiration for the `valorous woman' at the head of the warrior band and for the virgin who despises torture; the disconcerting shift of erotic idealisation of a remote lady and the relationship of love poetry to the praise of Christ the Bridegroom). TIMES HIGHER EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT

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