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

ISBN:

9789047427728

9781282400993

Title:

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

Author:

Craig, Leigh Ann.

Personal Author:

Craig, Leigh Ann.

Publication Information:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 308 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, v. 138

General Note:

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--The Ohio State University, 2001.

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.

Local Note:

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Subject Term:

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.

Christian women -- Religious life -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.

Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Geographic Term:

Europe -- Religious life and customs.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2009

Publication Information:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Summary

This book explores women's experiences of pilgrimage in Latin Christendom between 1300 and 1500 C.E. Later medieval authors harbored grave doubts about women's mobility; literary images of mobile women commonly accused them of lust, pride, greed, and deceit. Yet real women commonly engaged in pilgrimage in a variety of forms, both physical and spiritual, voluntary and compulsory, and to locations nearby and distant. Acting within both practical and social constraints, such women helped to construct more positive interpretations of their desire to travel and of their experiences as pilgrims. Regardless of how their travel was interpreted, those women who succeeded in becoming pilgrims offer us a rare glimpse of ordinary women taking on extraordinary religious and social authority.