The Good Women of the Parish: Gender and Religion After the Black Death

by Katherine L. French

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There was immense social and economic upheaval between the Black Death and the English Reformation, and contemporary writers often blamed this upheaval on immorality, singling out women's behavior for particular censure. Late medieval moral treatises and sermons increasingly connected good behavior for women with Christianity, and their failure to conform to sin. Katherine L. French argues, however, that medieval laywomen both coped with the chaotic...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0812240537

ISBN13:9780812240535

Release Date:December 2007

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.60 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

16th Century Christian Books & Bibles Christianity Church History England Europe Gender Studies History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Religion Religion & Spirituality Religious Studies Social Science Social Sciences Women in History Women's Studies World

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