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Author:

Craig, Leigh Ann.

Title:

Wandering women and holy matrons : women as pilgrims in the later Middle Ages / by Leigh Ann Craig.

Publisher:

Brill,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

x, 308 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--Europe--History--To 1500.
Christian women--History--Europe--History--To 1500.
Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Europe--Religious life and customs.

Notes:

Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--The Ohio State University, 2001. Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-299) and index.

Contents:

Home again : conclusions on women as pilgrims in the later Middle Ages. "She koude muchel of wandrynge by the weye" : pilgrimage and the fear of wandering women -- "The mother prayed, the daughter felt relief" : women and miraculous pilgrimage -- "Stronger than men and braver than knights" : women and devotional pilgrimage -- "She was brought to the shrine by force" : women and compulsory pilgrimage -- "That you cannot see them comes only from an impossibility" : women and non-corporeal pilgrimage -- Home again : conclusions on women as pilgrims in the later Middle Ages.

Series:

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; v. 138

ISBN:

9004174265 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004174269 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)286435798

LCCN:

2008053269

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OLAX314 -- Reu Memorial Library (Dubuque)