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Lives of the Anchoresses : The Rise of the Urban Recluse in Medieval Europe.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (310 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812202861
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lives of the AnchoressesDDC classification:
  • 271/.90204
LOC classification:
  • BX4205 -- .M85 2005eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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