TY - BOOK AU - Bitel,Lisa M. AU - Lifshitz,Felice TI - Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe: New Perspectives T2 - The Middle Ages Series SN - 9780812204490 AV - BT708 -- .G46 2008eb U1 - 274/.03082 PY - 2010/// CY - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - Sex role-Religious aspects-Christianity KW - Europe-Church history KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Convent Ruins and Christian Profession: Toward a Methodology for the History of Religion and Gender -- 1. Tertullian, the Angelic Life, and the Bride of Christ -- 2. One Flesh, Two Sexes, Three Genders? -- 3. Thomas Aquinas's Chastity Belt: Clerical Masculinity in Medieval Europe -- 4. Women's Monasteries and Sacred Space: The Promotion of Saints' Cults and Miracles -- 5. Priestly Women, Virginal Men: Litanies and Their Discontents -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Acknowledgments N2 - Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe seeks to explain the convergence of religion and gender in medieval Christendom. Essays in the volume examine how Europeans identified themselves as women, men, and Christians, and how these identities influenced religious belief and practice in everyday life UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3442163 ER -