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Record Number:
2695
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Gibson , Gail McMurray
Contributor(s):
Title:
Blessing from Sun and Moon: Churching as Women's Theater [The author argues for a more complex understanding of churching. While acknowledging the element of clerical misogyny, Gibson believes that women experienced a corporate identity and bodily power from the female-only ritual. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Bodies and Disciplines: Intersections of Literature and History in Fifteenth-Century England. Edited by Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace. Medieval Cultures series, 9. University of Minnesota Press, 1996. Pages 139 - 154.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Body
Candlemas, Feast Day Commemorating the Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple and the Purification of the Virgin Mary
Ceremonies
Churching
Mary, Virgin, Saint
Women in Religion
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
14- 15
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Abstract:
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Author's Affiliation:
Davidson College
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
1996.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0816627142