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A Cultural History of Women in Christianity: The Middle Ages (1000-1400)

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In the five hundred years covered by this volume, women in Christian Europe saw their agency progressively curtailed by hegemonic scholastic discourses aimed at controlling femininity by trapping it in stifling binaries (Eve/Mary; body/soul; corruption/salvation etc.). Building on apostolic and patr...

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Published in: A Cultural History of Women in Christianity: The Middle Ages (1000-1400)
ISBN: 9781032080802
Published: London and New York Routledge 2024
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