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Author:

Newman, Barbara, 1953-

Title:

From virile woman to womanChrist : studies in medieval religion and literature / Barbara Newman.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

c1995

Description:

355 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Women in Christianity--History.
Women and literature--Europe--History--To 1500.
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Middle Ages.
Femmes dans le christianisme--Histoire
Femmes dans la littérature--Histoire
Littérature médiévale--Histoire et critique
Église--Histoire--600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Moyen Âge--Histoire
Christendom.
Vrouwen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-343) and index.

Contents:

Flaws in the Golden Bowl: gender and spiritual formation in the twelfth century -- Authority, authenticity, and the repression of Heloise -- "Crueel Corage": Child sacrifice and the maternal martyr in hagiography and romance -- On the threshold of the dead: Purgatory, hell, and religious women -- La mystique courtoise: Thirteenth-century beguines and the art of love -- Hadewijch and Abelard -- Gnostics, free spirits, and "Meister Eckhart's daughter" -- WomanSpirit, woman Pope -- Renaissance feminism and esoteric theology: The case of Cornelius Agrippa.

Series:

Middle Ages series

ISBN:

9780812215458 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0812215451 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780812232738 (acid-free paper)
0812232739 (acid-free paper)

LCCN:

94037704

Locations:

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

OLAX314 -- Reu Memorial Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)