Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
(Part of the Women in Culture and Society Series)
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Between the twelfth and the sixteenth 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226066398
ISBN13:9780226066394
Release Date:July 1996
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:344 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"
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