The Good Women of the Parish : Gender and Religion after the Black Death.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1 "My Wedding Gown to Make a Vestment": Housekeeping and Churchkeeping -- 2 Hatched, Matched, and Dispatched: Life Cycles and the Liturgy -- 3 "My Pew in the Middle Aisle": Women at Mass -- 4 Maidens' Lights and Wives' Stores: Women's Parish Groups -- 5 "To Save Them from Binding on Hock Tuesday": The Rise of a Women's Holiday -- 6 A Cross Out of Bread Crumbs: Women's Piety and Impiety -- Epilogue: Women and the Reformation -- Appendix A. All-Women's Groups -- Appendix B. Hocktide Celebrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.

French argues that medieval laywomen both coped with the chaotic changes following the plague and justified their own changing behavior by participating in local religion. Through active engagement in the parish church, the basic unit of public worship, women promoted and validated their own interests and responsibilities.

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