From Virile Woman to Womanchrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature by Barbara Newman

From Virile Woman to Womanchrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature

Barbara Newman

424 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Why did hagiographers of the late Middle Ages praise mothers for abandoning small children? How did a group of female mystics come to define themselves as "apostles to the dead" and end by challenging God's right to damn? Why did certain heretics ...

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