Product Description: This volume discusses, from an historical and literary angle, the ways in which sanctification and the inscription of saintliness take place. Going beyond the traditional categories of canonization, cult, liturgical veneration and hagiographical lives, the work raises fundamental issues concerning definitions of saints and saintliness in a period before the concept was crystallized in canon law...read more

Product Description: This volume presents the Lives of three women of the thirteenth century, all written by contemporaries. In the late Middle Ages, almost every town in Northern Europe had its own anchoress, who would keep in touch with the citizens through a window looking onto the churchyard or through a door and window looking into the church (as shown in the cover illustration)...read more

Product Description: Comprises revised editions of three texts formerly published by Peregrina Publishing, but reedited under the supervision of Barbara Newman and Constant Mews, and with supplementary contextual articles on the life and times of Mary Oignies...read more

Product Description: The contributions to this volume show that in pre-industrial Europe, women in their prime (women who had reached maturity and were beyond fertility but not yet in old age), constitute a separate category for historical and literary analysis...read more

Product Description: The transmission of knowledge in clerical and academic settings of the later Middle Ages has been relatively well studied by traditional scholarship. But successes achieved in other subject areas by application of a set of methodologies grouped under the rubric of 'gender studies' offered hope that valuable insights might come from application of these methodologies to medieval education...read more

Product Description: Increasingly, recent scholarship has focused on those married women and mothers in the Middle Ages who achieved holiness. The Merovingian Waldetrudis and Rictrudis; Ida, mother of the crusader king Godfrey of Bouillon; Elisabeth of Hungary and Bridget of Sweden are among them...read more