Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 22639
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Barcellona , Rossana
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  • Title: Le vedove cristiane tra i Padri e le norme [In fifth and sixth century Gaul, widows were set apart by some clergy with a ceremony similar to the veiling of virgins. Widows might be indigent or members of the highest social groups with ascetic impulses. The Fathers of the Church created a theology of widowhood, much of it addressed to widows they knew. A growing body of ecclesiastical regulations gradually marginalized an actual order of widows. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
  • Source: Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 35, ( 2003): Pages 167 - 185.
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Ambrose, Bishop of Milan and Saint Canon Law Jerome, Theologian and Saint Patristics Theology Widows
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 6-May
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  • Year of Publication: 2003.
  • Language: Italian
  • ISSN/ISBN: 00035157