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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