Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 4575
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  • Title: Gerson on Lay Devotion [Jean Gerson had a double view of excesses in religion. On the one hand, he took a tolerant view of the well-meaning excesses of lay people, believing they could be led to right practices. On the other, he feared those who arrogated to themselves unique insights despite their lack of training. This stricture applied both to women and to men like Jacques of Bingen. Gerson was capable of changing his mind, as when he withdrew support of Ermine of Reims. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
  • Source:   Edited by Brian Patrick McGuireBrill's Companions to the Christian Tradition: A Series of handbooks and reference works on the intellectual and religious life of Europe, 500-1700 Brill, 2005.  Pages 131 - 145.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Ermine of Reims, Mystic Gerson, Jean, Theologian Jacques of Bingen, preacherMarguerite Porete, Mystic Mystics Ubertino da Casale, Theologian Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 14- 15
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  • Year of Publication: 2005.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: Not Available