Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 13710
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Whitehead , Christiania.
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  • Title: Introduction--Medieval Spirituality and Gender [the author lays out the approach of the essays in "Writing Religious Women," the spirituality and textual practice of the women under consideration; furthermore she considers collections of essays published in the 1980s and 1990s that deal with medieval women].
  • 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 6 - 10.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Gender Spirituality Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 14- 15
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  • Related Resources: Christiania Whitehead situates this volume vis-a-vis contemporary (1970s and later) commentaries on medieval women's experience. In doing so, she articulates the current volume's unique emphases on "a variety of close readings of specifically English spir
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  • Year of Publication: 2000.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0802035175