Patterns of Piety: Women, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation England

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Cambridge University Press, 15 mai 2003 - 389 pages
This book offers a new interpretation of the transition from Catholicism to Protestantism in the English Reformation, and explores its implications for an understanding of women and gender. It argues that late medieval Christocentric piety shaped the nature of the Reformation, and reasseses assumptions that the 'loss' of the Virgin Mary and the saints was detrimental to women. In defining the representative frail Christian as a woman devoted to Christ, the Reformation could not be an alien environment for women, while the Christocentric tradition encouraged the questioning of gender stereotypes.
 

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PART
6
PART 2
144
The return to the Old Testament
246
Martyrs
270
Adams Fall
294
Godly marriage
314
Churchwardens accounts before 1570
350
Bibliography
363
Index
380
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