TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mulder-Bakker,Anneke B.
AU  - Scholz,Myra Heerspink
TI  - Lives of the Anchoresses: The Rise of the Urban Recluse in Medieval Europe
T2  - The Middle Ages Series
SN  - 9780812202861
AV  - BX4205 -- .M85 2005eb 
U1  - 271/.90204 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Eremitic life-Europe
KW  - Monastic and religious life of women-History-Middle Ages, 600-1500
KW  - Cities and towns-Religious aspects-Christianity-History-To 1500
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- 1. Bees without a King -- 2. The Mother of Guibert of Nogent: The Age of Discretion -- 3. Yvette of Huy: The Metamorphoses of a Woman -- 4. Juliana of Cornillon, Church Reform, and the Corpus Christi Feast -- 5. Eve of St. Martin, the Faithful of Liège, and the Church -- 6. Lame Margaret of Magdeburg and her Lessons -- 7. Living Saints -- 8. Epilogue -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
N2  - In cities and towns across northern Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a new type of religious woman took up authoritative though solitary positions in medieval society. Mulder-Bakker offers a new history of these women and their roles as counselors, theological innovators, and public recluses
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