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Proving woman : female spirituality and inquisitional culture in the later Middle Ages / Dyan Elliott.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elliott, Dyan, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Religious life--History.
- Women.
- Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Church history.
- Church history--Middle Ages.
- Mysticism--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Mysticism.
- History.
- Mysticism--Middle Ages.
- Women mystics--Europe.
- Women mystics.
- Heresy--History--To 1500.
- Heresy.
- Inquisition.
- Women--Religious life.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Annotations (Provenance) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Penn Provenance:
- Peters, Edward, 1936- (donor) (Lea copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 350 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- "In this provocative and forceful book, Dyan Elliott considers the impact of an institutional procedure on the phenomena it was used to assess. "Proving Woman" examines sacramental confession, the inquisition of heretics, and the discernment of spirits as parallel cases of a growing medieval concern with the "proving" of spirituality, especially that of women, by an increasingly skeptical clergy. Elliott carefully sifts through primary sources in diverse genres, including many little-known texts, in her characteristically sharp and lucid prose."--Barbara Newman, Northwestern University
- "Elliott has written a very smart book; it is complex, subtle and challenging, and an important work of scholarship."--Penelope D. Johnson, New York University
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-331) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Dr. Edward Peters.
- Lea Library copy is presented by the author to Dr. Edward Peters (" For Ed, with admiration, Dyan").
- Lea Library copy has ms. underlines and notes by Dr. Edward Peters.
- Lea Library copy has 2 reviews of this book, one by Gábor Klaniczay and one by John Coakley laid in.
- Lea Library copy has a post card send by the author of this book to Dr. Edward Peters laid in.
- ISBN:
- 069105956X
- 0691118604
- 9780691059563
- 9780691118604
- OCLC:
- 52773708
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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