Wandering women and holy matrons [electronic resource] : women as pilgrims in the later Middle Ages / by Leigh Ann Craig.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 138.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.Description: x, 308 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 263/.0410820902 22
LOC classification:
  • BX2320.5.E85 C73 2009eb
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Contents:
Introduction -- "She koude muchel of wandrynge by the weye" : pilgrimage and the fear of wandering women -- "The mother prayed, the daughter felt relief" : women and miraculous pilgrimage -- "Stronger than men and braver than knights" : women and devotional pilgrimage -- "She was brought to the shrine by force" : women and compulsory pilgrimage -- "That you cannot see them comes only from an impossibility" : women and non-corporeal pilgrimage -- Home again : conclusions on women as pilgrims in the later Middle Ages.
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Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--The Ohio State University, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-299) and index.

Introduction -- "She koude muchel of wandrynge by the weye" : pilgrimage and the fear of wandering women -- "The mother prayed, the daughter felt relief" : women and miraculous pilgrimage -- "Stronger than men and braver than knights" : women and devotional pilgrimage -- "She was brought to the shrine by force" : women and compulsory pilgrimage -- "That you cannot see them comes only from an impossibility" : women and non-corporeal pilgrimage -- Home again : conclusions on women as pilgrims in the later Middle Ages.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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