Anglo-Saxon Women and the Church: Sharing a Common Fate
This study of literature by clerics who were writing to, for, or aboutAnglo-Saxon women in the 8th and early 9th centuries suggests thatthe position of women had already declined sharply before the Conquest a claim at variance with the traditional scholarly view. Stephanie Hollis argues that Pope Gregory's letter to Augustine and Theodore's Penitentialimplicitly convey the early church's view of women as subordinate to men, and maintains that much early church writing reflects conceptions of womanhood that had hardened into established commonplace by the later middle ages. To support her argument the author examines the indigenous position of…
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- ISBN: 978-0-85115-317-9
- EAN: 9780851153179
- Produktnummer: 3787282
- Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H23.9 cm x B16.4 cm x D3.1 cm 662 g
- Gewicht: 662
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