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Women, the Book, and the Godly: Selected Proceedings of the St Hilda's Conference, 1993 : Volume I, Hardback Book

Women, the Book, and the Godly: Selected Proceedings of the St Hilda's Conference, 1993 : Volume I Hardback

Edited by Lesley Smith, Jane H M Taylor

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Papers on women and religion in the middle ages, drawn from archive, manuscipt and early printed sources. Taking a variety of critical approaches, the papers in Women, the Book and the Godlyanalyse the subject of women and religion, illustrating clearly the wealth of previously untapped material on this topic, whether in archive, manuscript or early printed source.

The volume examines writing by women, writing which excludes women, and writing which ignores them, as well as women readers, women patrons, and women who were read to.

Archaeology, canon and civil law, and trial depositions are all represented.

The common determinants of marital and social status are, of course, explored, but so also are the problems of women and language, women's various roles as creators, recipients, and objects, and women's positions on the sliding scale between the orthodox, the reforming, and the heterodox churches.

The essays thus represent something of the variety and range of work being done on medieval women today. Contributors: ALCUIN BLAMIRES, JACQUELINE MURRAY, WYBREN SCHEEPSMA, ANNEM.

DUTTON, ROSALYNN VOADEN, GRACE JANTZEN, ELIZABETH A.

ANDERSEN, THOMAS LUONGO, BENEDICTA WARD, GOPA ROY, GEORGES WHALEN, CATHERINE INNES-PARKER, HELENPHILLIPS, SHANNON McSHEFFREY, PETER BILLER

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