Christian Holy Women and the Exercise of Religious Authority in the Medieval West
The essay reviews scholarship on female mystics and other holy women in late Medieval Europe (1100-1400), as a collective case study in how religious authority has been negotiated in the history of Christianity. Recent scholars view the firm exclusion of women from institutional leadership by male c...
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Wiley-Blackwell
2009
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Religion compass
Year: 2009, Volume: 3, Issue: 5, Pages: 847-856 |
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