Gender and Christianity in medieval Europe
Subtitle: new perspectives
By: edited by Lisa M. Bitel and Felice Lifshitz.
Contributors: Bitel, Lisa M., 1958-; Lifshitz, Felice, 1959-
Series: The Middle Ages series
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780812240696
Subjects: Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Europe -- Church history -- 600-1500
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-143) and index.
Table of contents: title: Convent ruins and Christian profession : toward a methodology for the history of religion and gender / Lisa M. Bitel; title: Tertullian, the angelic life, and the bride of Christ / Dyan Elliot; title: One flesh, two sexes, three genders? / Jacqueline Murray; title: Thomas Aquinas's chastity belt : clerical masculinity in medieval Europe / Ruth Mazo Karras; title: Women's monasteries and sacred space : the promotion of saints' cults and miracles / Jane Tibbetts Schulenberg; title: Priestly women, virginal men : litanies and their discontents / Felice Lifshitz.