| Household, Women, and Christianities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Contributor(s): Mulder-Bakker, Anneke B. (Editor), Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn (Editor) |
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ISBN: 2503517781 ISBN-13: 9782503517780 Publisher: Brepols Publishers OUR PRICE: $36.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2006 Annotation: Much recent research has illuminated medieval secular life and lifestyles, paying renewed attention to the economic and social history of medieval households. Current scholarship on medieval women has also produced numerous studies of the devotional reading of medieval women, of medieval female communities, and the history of medieval professed and laywomens religious lives. However we know of no study uniting the household and medieval womens religious activities as a focus of enquiry. The present volume thus at once addresses a field of vigorous scholarship while offering a distinctive and powerful focus for the history of medieval women. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval |
| Series: Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.54" W x 9.66" (1.40 lbs) 260 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Both as God's house and as the dwellings of his monastic and other followers, the history of the church is in part that of an institution conceived as a household. In recent years, secular life and lifestyles in late antiquity and the Middle Ages have been illuminated through renewed attention to the economic and social history of households, while scholarship on women has produced studies of the lives and the devotional reading of laywomen and women religious.This volume is a pioneering collection that unites study of the household with women's religious practices as a focus of enquiry. It moves beyond consideration of the church's roles in women's history to the impact of women's householding on the history of the church. |