Patterns of Piety: Women, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation England
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History Series)
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Offering a new interpretation of the transition from Catholicism to Protestantism in the English Reformation, this book explores its implications for an understanding of women and gender. It asserts that late medieval Christocentric piety shaped the nature of the Reformation, and reasseses assumptions that the loss of the Virgin Mary and the saints was detrimental to women. In defining the representative frail Christian as a woman devoted to Christ,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521580625
ISBN13:9780521580625
Release Date:June 2003
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:410 Pages
Weight:1.75 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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