The Good Women of the Parish: Gender and Religion After the Black Death (The Middle Ages Series) - Image 1

Price loading...

University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications The Good Women of the Parish: Gender and Religion After the Black Death (The Middle Ages Series)

Name: The Good Women of the Parish: Gender and Religion After the Black Death (The Middle Ages Series)
Brand: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications

Black Death

Price data last checked 91 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

There was immense social and economic upheaval between the Black Death and the English Reformation, and contemporary writers often blamed this upheaval on immorality, singling out women's behavior for particular censure. Late medieval moral treatises and sermons increasingly connected good behavior for women with Christianity, and their failure to conform to sin. Katherine L. French argues, however, that medieval laywomen both coped with the chaotic changes following the plague and justified their own changing behavior by participating in local religion. Through active engagement in the parish church, the basic unit of public worship, women promoted and validated their own interests and responsibilities. Scholarship on medieval women's religious experiences has focused primarily on elite women, nuns, and mystics who either were literate enough to leave written records of their religious ideas and behavior or had access to literate men who did this for them. Most women, however, were not literate, were not members of religious orders, and did not have private confessors. As The Good Women of the Parish shows, the great majority of women practiced their religion in a parish church. By looking at women's contributions to parish maintenance, the ways they shaped the liturgy and church seating arrangements, and their increasing opportunities for collective action in all-women's groups, the book argues that gendered behavior was central to parish life and that women's parish activities gave them increasing visibility and even, on occasion, authority. In the face of demands for silence, modesty, and passivity, women of every social status used religious practices as an important source of self-expression, creativity, and agency.

Product Specifications

Brand: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0812240537
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > Medieval > Black Death
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 December 2007
Listed Since: 29 May 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications The Good Women of the Parish: Gender and Religion After the Black Death (The Middle Ages Series)

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The People of the Parish: Community Life in a Late Medieval English Diocese (The Middle Ages Series)

Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London: Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague (The Middle Ages Series)

Women's Roles in the Middle Ages (Women's Roles through History)

Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640: Negotiating the Steps of Faith: 19 (Gender in the Middle Ages)

Routledge Redefining Female Religious Life - History Book

Nuns' Priests' Tales - Men and Salvation in Medieval Life

Fixing the Liturgy: Friars, Sisters, and the Dominican Rite, 1256-1516 (The Middle Ages Series)

Women, the Book, and the Godly: Selected Proceedings of the St Hilda's Conference, 1993: Volume I: 001

Saintly Women: Medieval Saints, Modern Women, and Intimate Partner Violence (Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture)

Routledge - Women, Reading, and Cultural Politics in England

The Profession of Widowhood: Widows, Pastoral Care, and Medieval Models of Holiness

Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)

Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England (The Middle Ages Series)

Routledge From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris - History

English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500-1625 (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)

Monastic Women and Secular Economy in Later Medieval Europe, ca. 1200 to 1500

Routledge Lived Religion and Gender in Late Medieval Europe

Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)

Representing Medieval Genders and Sexualities in Europe: Construction, Transformation, and Subversion, 600–1530

The Power of a Woman's Voice in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures: New Approaches to German and European Women Writers and to Violence Against ... of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 1)

Beyond the Cloister: Catholic Englishwomen and Early Modern Literary Culture

The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc

The Garden of Delights: Reform and Renaissance for Women in the Twelfth Century (The Middle Ages Series)

Gender and Authority in the Late Medieval Church - Cornell Press