Medieval Women Religious, C. 800-c.1500 9781800108998, 9781837650293

Monastic Women and Religious Orders in Late Medieval Bologna

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Equal in Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval France 9780226401973

In this study of the manner in which medieval nuns lived, Penelope Johnson challenges facile stereotypes of nuns living

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Religious Obligations of Muslim Women

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Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women 9780520908789

In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even

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Equal in monastic profession: religious women in Medieval France 9780226401973, 9780226401850, 9780226401867

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Holy feast and holy fast: the religious significance of food to medieval women 9780520057227, 9780520908789, 9780520063297

Examines the role of food in the religion of women in the Middle Ages and argues that food practices enabled women to ex

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Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance 9780812290127

Elisheva Baumgarten offers a fresh assessment of Jewish daily practices in medieval Ashkenaz. The first study to address

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Imprisoning Medieval Women: The Non-Judicial Confinement and Abduction of Women in England, c.1170-1509 1317118278, 9781317118275

The non-judicial confinement of women is a common event in medieval European literature and hagiography. The literary im

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Women, work, and life cycle in a Medieval economy: women in York and Yorkshire c.1300-1520 9780198201540

This is an innovative analysis of the relationship between women's economic opportunity and marriage in the fourtee

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Women in the Medieval Common Law c.1200–1500 1134775970, 9781134775972

This book examines the view of women held by medieval common lawyers and legislators, and considers medieval women’s tre

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