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That gentle strength : historical perspectives on women in Christianity
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That gentle strength : historical perspectives on women in Christianity

Author: Lynda L Coon; Katherine J Haldane; Elisabeth W Sommer
Publisher: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1990.
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : State or province government publication : English
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Material Type: Conference publication, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Lynda L Coon; Katherine J Haldane; Elisabeth W Sommer
ISBN: 0813912938 9780813912936
OCLC Number: 21523622
Description: vi, 267, [11] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Early Christian women : sources and interpretation / Elizabeth A. Clark -- Women in early Byzantine hagiography : reversing the story / Susan Ashbrook Harvey -- Marital imagery in six late twelfth- and early thirteenth-century vitae of female saints / Diane L. Mockridge -- The place of women in the late medieval Italian church / Duane J. Osheim -- Misconduct in the medieval nunnery : fact, not fiction / Graciela S. Daichman -- Telling her sins : male confessors and female penitents in Catholic Reformation Italy / Rudolph M. Bell -- The battle of the sexes and the world upside down / Keith Moxey -- The religion of the femmelettes : ideals and experience among women in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century France / Thomas Head -- The nuns of Port-Royal : a study of female spirituality in seventeenth-century France / Alexander Sedgwick -- Calling and career : the revolution in the mind and heart of Abigail Adams / Rosemary Skinner Keller. Religion in the lives of slaveholding women of the antebellum South / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- Between fiction and madness : the relationship of women to the supernatural in late Victorian Britain / Mary Walker -- A spirit of her own : nineteenth-century feminine explorations of spirituality / Vanessa D. Dickerson.
Responsibility: edited with an introduction by Lynda L. Coon, Katherine J. Haldane, and Elisabeth W. Sommer.

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