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Sainted Women of the Dark Ages
Language: en
Pages: 370
Authors: Jo Ann McNamara
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-03-27 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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Sainted Women of the Dark Ages makes available the lives of eighteen Frankish women of the sixth and seventh centuries, all of whom became saints. Written in La
Uppity Women of Medieval Times
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Vicki León
Categories: Humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-01-01 - Publisher: Conari Press

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This guide to the feisty women of medieval times profiles 200 of these fair and unfair damsels from around the world. There's English rose Hilda of Whitby, Viki
Women of the Gilte Legende
Language: en
Pages: 166
Authors: Jacobus (de Voragine)
Categories: Christian women saints
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: DS Brewer

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This book is a prose translation of a selection of women saints' lives from the Gilte Legende, the Middle English version of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea
Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe
Language: en
Pages: 169
Authors: Lisa M. Bitel
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-26 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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In Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe, six historians explore how medieval people professed Christianity, how they performed gender, and how the two coi
Holy Feast and Holy Fast
Language: en
Pages: 496
Authors: Caroline Walker Bynum
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-01-07 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extrao