Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 7731
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Renevey , Denis.
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  • Title: Introduction--Female Vernacular Theology [defined by the authors as "this subcategory embodies religious works either written and performed by women, written for women, and/or, to a lesser degree, representing women." (Page 5).].
  • Source: Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England.  Edited by Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead.  University of Toronto Press, 2000.  Pages 1 - 5.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Theology Translation Vernacular Language Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 14- 15
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  • Related Resources: In the editors' "Introduction," Denis Renevey articulates "female vernacular theology" as a subspecies of "medieval vernacular religious literature," and, in so doing, indicates that -- at least here -- gender distinctions are less basic to literary or re
  • Author's Affiliation: University of Fribourg and University of Lausanne (Renevey)
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  • Year of Publication: 2000.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0802035175