Gender and Christianity in medieval Europe: new perspectives

edited by Lisa M. Bitel and Felice Lifshitz

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Table of Contents:: Introduction. Convent ruins and Christian profession : toward a methodology for the history of religion and gender / Lisa M. Bitel
1. Tertullian, the angelic life, and the bride of Christ / Dyan Elliott
2. One flesh, two sexes, three genders? / Jacqueline Murray
3. Thomas Aquinas's chastity belt : clerical masculinity in medieval Europe / Ruth Mazo Karras
4. Women's monasteries and sacred space : the promotion of saints' cults and miracles / Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg
5. Priestly women, virginal men : litanies and their discontents / Felice Lifshitz.
Contributors:: Bitel, Lisa M., 1958-
Lifshitz, Felice, 1959-
Languages:: English
Language Notes:: Item content: English
Related Series:: Middle Ages series
Subjects:: Sex role — Religious aspects — Christianity
Europe — Church history — 600-1500
600-1500
Sex role
Church history
Europe
General Notes:: Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-143) and index.
Physical Description:: 158 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Call Numbers:: BT708 .G45 2008
ISBNs:: 9780812240696 (hardcover, alk. paper)
0812240693 (hardcover, alk. paper)
Library of Congress Control Numbers:: 2007030143
OCLC Numbers:: 157023142