Wandering Women and Holy Matrons: Women as Pilgrims in the Later Middle Ages (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions)

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pp. x 308.”This book explores women’s experiences of pilgrimage in Latin Christendom between 1300 and 1500 C.E. Later medieval authors harbored grave doubts about women’s mobility; literary images of mobile women commonly accused them of lust, pride, greed, and deceit. Yet real women commonly engaged in pilgrimage in a variety of forms, both physical and spiritual, voluntary and compulsory, and to locations nearby and distant. Acting within both practical and social constraints, such women helped to construct more positive interpretations of their desire to travel and of their experiences as pilgrims. Regardless of how their travel was interpreted, those women who succeeded in becoming pilgrims offer us a rare glimpse of ordinary women taking on extraordinary religious and social authority.”

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ISBN 9004174265
ISBN13 9789004174269
Number of pages 308
Original Title Wandering Women and Holy Matrons: Women as Pilgrims in the Later Middle Ages (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions)
Published Date 2009
Book Condition Very good
Jacket Condition No Dustjacket
Binding Hardcover
Size 8vo
Place of Publication Leiden
Edition First edition
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pp. x 308.”This book explores women’s experiences of pilgrimage in Latin Christendom between 1300 and 1500 C.E. Later medieval authors harbored grave doubts about women’s mobility; literary images of mobile women commonly accused them of lust, pride, greed, and deceit. Yet real women commonly engaged in pilgrimage in a variety of forms, both physical and spiritual, voluntary and compulsory, and to locations nearby and distant. Acting within both practical and social constraints, such women helped to construct more positive interpretations of their desire to travel and of their experiences as pilgrims. Regardless of how their travel was interpreted, those women who succeeded in becoming pilgrims offer us a rare glimpse of ordinary women taking on extraordinary religious and social authority.”

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Weight 0.65 kg