WOMEN AND RELIGION IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ITALY by Daniel E. Bornstein, etc. ( 9780226066370 )

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WOMEN AND RELIGION IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ITALY

By:

Daniel E. Bornstein, etc.

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0226066371

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9780226066370

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Publisher:

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Pub. date:

9 July, 1996

Series:

Women in Culture and Society Series

Pages:

352

Description:

This work shows how women between the 12th and 16th centuries were able to carve out areas of influence by exploiting the institutional church and by manipulating religious precepts. Contributors argue that women's participation in religious life offered them access to power in all its forms.

Synopsis:

Between the 12th and the 16th centuries, women assumed public roles of unprecedented prominence in Italian religious culture. Legally subordinated, politically excluded, socially limited and ideologically disdained, women's active participation in religious life offered them access to power in all its forms. These essays explore the involvement of women in religious life throughout northern and central Italy and trace the evolution of communities of pious women as they tried to achieve their devotional goals despite the strictures of the ecclesiastical hierarchy. The contributors examine relations between holy women, their devout followers and society at large. This book shows how women were able to carve out broad areas of influence by carefully exploiting the institutional church and by astutely manipulating religious precepts.

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11 halftones

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University of Chicago Press

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