Household, Women, and Christianities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9782503517780)

Both as God's house and as the dwellings of his monastic and other followers, the history of the church is in part that of an institution conceived as a household. In recent years, secular life and lifestyles in late antiquity and the Middle Ages have been illuminated through renewed attention to the economic and social history of households, while scholarship on women has produced studies of the lives and the devotional reading of laywomen and women religious.This volume is a pioneering collection that unites study of the household with women's religious practices as a focus of enquiry. It moves beyond consideration of the church's roles in women's history to the impact of women's householding on the history of the church.

Author: Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker
ISBN-10: 2503517781
ISBN-13: 9782503517780
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Language: English
Published: 02/24/2006
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.66h x 6.54w x 0.85d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2006 pg. 170