Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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SEE ALSO: ordination of women

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1. Record Number: 8307
Author(s): Gaunt, Simon.
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Title : Widows, Consecrated Virgins, and Deaconesses in Ancient Gaul [The author argues that the tradition of female ministries in which women served the Church in official capacities took various forms in Gaul including deaconesses, blessed virgins, and chaste widows. All of these women were celibate but took part in the life of the Church and did not live in monasteries. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Magistra , 8., 1 (Summer 2002): Pages 53 - 84.
Year of Publication: 2002.

2. Record Number: 4987
Author(s): Macy, Gary.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Ordination of Women in the Early Middle Ages

Source: Theological Studies , 61., 3 (September 2000): Pages 481 - 507.
Year of Publication: 2000.

3. Record Number: 4336
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Contributor(s):
Title : Women at Church in Byzantium: Where, When- and Why? [The author argues that women were segregated in church and had other limitations to preserve church order, decorum, and offer protection].

Source: Dumbarton Oaks Papers (Full Text via JSTOR) 52 (1998): 27-87. Link Info Reprinted in Divine Liturgies - Human Problems in Byzantium, Armenia, Syria and Palestine. By Robert F. Taft. Ashgate Variorum, 2001. Article 1.
Year of Publication: 1998.