Wandering women and holy matrons [electronic resource] : women as pilgrims in the later Middle Ages / by Leigh Ann Craig.

By: Craig, Leigh AnnContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 138.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009Description: x, 308 p. : illSubject(s): Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 | Christian women -- Religious life -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 | Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 | Europe -- Religious life and customsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 263/.0410820902 LOC classification: BX2320.5.E85 | C73 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction -- "She koude muchel of wandrynge by the weye" : pilgrimage and the fear of wandering women -- "The mother prayed, the daughter felt relief" : women and miraculous pilgrimage -- "Stronger than men and braver than knights" : women and devotional pilgrimage -- "She was brought to the shrine by force" : women and compulsory pilgrimage -- "That you cannot see them comes only from an impossibility" : women and non-corporeal pilgrimage -- Home again : conclusions on women as pilgrims in the later Middle Ages.
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Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--The Ohio State University, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-299) and index.

Introduction -- "She koude muchel of wandrynge by the weye" : pilgrimage and the fear of wandering women -- "The mother prayed, the daughter felt relief" : women and miraculous pilgrimage -- "Stronger than men and braver than knights" : women and devotional pilgrimage -- "She was brought to the shrine by force" : women and compulsory pilgrimage -- "That you cannot see them comes only from an impossibility" : women and non-corporeal pilgrimage -- Home again : conclusions on women as pilgrims in the later Middle Ages.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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