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Fictive orders and feminine religious identities, 1200-1600 / Alison More.
Van Pelt Library BX4272.Z5 E85 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- More, Alison, 1975- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beguines--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Beguines.
- Women in the Catholic Church--History--To 1500.
- Women in the Catholic Church.
- History.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- x, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities traces the story of pious laywomen in Europe from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, examining the ways these women were active and engaged in their social and intellectual worlds, while also tracing the formation of modern perceptions about gender roles and the reasons why they persisted.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-197) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198807694
- 9780198807698
- OCLC:
- 986627529
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