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Wandering women and holy matrons : women as pilgrims in the later Middle Ages
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Wandering women and holy matrons : women as pilgrims in the later Middle Ages

Author: Leigh Ann Craig
Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Series: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, v. 138.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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Women commonly became pilgrims in Latin Christendom in the later Middle Ages, despite the opposition of contemporary critics. This book explores women's participation in many forms of pilgrimage, and  Read more...

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Craig, Leigh Ann.
Wandering women and holy matrons.
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009
(OCoLC)646274304
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Leigh Ann Craig
ISBN: 9789004174269 9004174265
OCLC Number: 286435798
Notes: Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--The Ohio State University, 2001.
Description: x, 308 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
"She koude muchel of wandrynge by the weye" : pilgrimage and the fear of wandering women --
"The mother prayed, the daughter felt relief" : women and miraculous pilgrimage --
"Stronger than men and braver than knights" : women and devotional pilgrimage --
"She was brought to the shrine by force" : women and compulsory pilgrimage --
"That you cannot see them comes only from an impossibility" : women and non-corporeal pilgrimage --
Home again : conclusions on women as pilgrims in the later Middle Ages.
Series Title: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, v. 138.
Responsibility: by Leigh Ann Craig.

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