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Author: Laura Kalas ,
Roberta Magnani
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.453kg
ISBN: 9781032080802
ISBN 10: 1032080809
Pages: 250
Publication Date: 10 December 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
“This valuable, engaging and wide-ranging volume offers a comprehensive examination of the role of women in European Christianity between 1000 and 1500. The introduction is clearly written and highly informative. The chapters approach the subject from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, variously addressing women in philosophy, theology and religion, popular belief, medicine and science, education, and art. While patriarchal Christianity could certainly be oppressive and restrictive, this volume emphasises that women were central to the medieval religious world and that, in a whole variety of ways, they were able to demonstrate agency in their devotional lives.” - Diane Watt, Professor of Medieval English Literature, University of Surrey
“This valuable, engaging and wide ranging volume offers a comprehensive examination of the role of women in European Christianity between 1000 and 1500. The introduction is clearly written and highly informative. The chapters approach the subject from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, variously addressing women in philosophy, theology and religion, popular belief, medicine and science, education, and art. While patriarchal Christianity could certainly be oppressive and restrictive, this volume emphasises that women were central to the medieval religious world and that, in a whole variety of ways, they were able to demonstrate agency in their devotional lives.” - Diane Watt, Professor of Medieval English Literature, University of Surrey
Author Information
Laura Kalas is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Swansea University, UK. She is the author of Margery Kempe’s Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life- Course (2020) and coeditor of Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe (2021). Her research focuses on medieval religious culture and especially writings by, and about, women, on medicine, materiality, and devotion. Roberta Magnani is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Swansea University, UK. Her research interests lie in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and late medieval manuscript culture with a specific focus on queer and trans theory. She has co-edited with Diane Watt a Special Issue of the journal postmedieval entitled ‘Queer Manuscripts’.
