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On the Purification of Women : Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500, Hardback Book

On the Purification of Women : Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500 Hardback

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This book is a social history of the ritual and custom of churching, a liturgical rite of purification after childbirth performed on a woman's first visit to church after giving birth.

The book describes the development of the rite from its original meaning as a response to blood pollution to its redefinition as a rite that honoured marriage.

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