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Religiösa aspekter på sexualitet, genus & relationer
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Includes life histories of four women preachers, transcriptions of sermons, and analysis by Lawless of both life stories and sermons.
The early Christian writer Tertullian first applied the epithet "e;bride of Christ"e; to the uppity virgins of Carthage as a means of enforcing female obedience. …
Why did hagiographers of the late Middle Ages praise mothers for abandoning small children? How did a group of female mystics come to define themselves as "e;apostles to the …
Her Life Historical offers a major reconsideration of one of the most popular narrative forms in late medieval Englandthe lives of female saintsand one of the period's primary …
Late antique and early medieval hagiographic texts present holy women as simultaneously pious and corrupt, hideous and beautiful, exemplars of depravity and models of sanctity. In …
The institution of marriage is commonly thought to have fallen into crisis in late medieval northern France. While prior scholarship has identified the pervasiveness of clandestine …
Do women preach differently than men? In Women Preaching Revolution Elaine J. Lawless contends that they do. Drawing on her study of more than 150 sermons and extensive interviews …