Women's space: patronage, place, and gender in the medieval church

Signs of the body : gender, sexuality, and space in York and the York cycle / Ruth Evans -- Ely's St. Æthelthryth : the shrine's enclosure of the female body as symbol for the inviolability of monasstic space / Virginia Blanton -- Margery Kempe and the arts of self-patronage / Sarah Stanbu...

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Contributors: Raguin, Virginia Chieffo 1941- (Editor) ; Stanbury, Sarah (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Albany, NY State University of New York Press c2005
In:Year: 2005
Reviews:[Rezension von: Raguin, Virginia Chieffo, Women's Space: Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church] (2006) (Brown, Jennifer N.)
Series/Journal:SUNY series in medieval studies
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Woman / Church history studies 600-1500
B Woman / Church / History 500-1500
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Church History Middle Ages, 600-1500
B Christian women Religious life History To 1500
B Women Religious life History
B Women in Christianity History To 1500
B Church History Middle Ages, 600-1500
Online Access: Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag)
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Summary:Signs of the body : gender, sexuality, and space in York and the York cycle / Ruth Evans -- Ely's St. Æthelthryth : the shrine's enclosure of the female body as symbol for the inviolability of monasstic space / Virginia Blanton -- Margery Kempe and the arts of self-patronage / Sarah Stanbury -- Real and imaged bodies in architectural space : the setting for Margery Kempe's book / Virginia Chieffo Raguin -- The seat under our lady : gender and seating in late medieval English parish churches / Katherine L. French -- Access to salvation : the place (and space) of women patrons in fourteenth century Florence / Ena Giurescu Heller -- Gender, celibacy, and proscriptions of sacred space : symbol and practice / Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg -- Men on the right-- women on the left : (a)symmetrical spaces and gendered places / Corine Schleif
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0791463656