From virile woman to womanChrist : studies in medieval religion and literature / Barbara Newman.

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 around 1300 venerate a woman as the Ho...

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Main Author: Newman, Barbara, 1953-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1995.
Series:Middle Ages series.
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