On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500 by Rieder, P.

On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403969699)

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On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500 by Rieder, P.

On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500

$54.99
On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500 by Rieder, P.

On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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Honorable Mention for the SMFS First Book Prize! On the Purification of Women examines the medieval ritual of churching, a rite of purification after childbirth performed on a woman's first visit to church after giving birth. The book describes the development of the rite from its original meaning as a response to blood pollution to its redefinition as a rite honoring marriage. This redefinition, accomplished within the heated context of twelfth-century Church reforms, promoted lay conformity with the Church's understanding of marriage and allowed the Church to use the ritual as a disciplinary tool with important consequences for the lives of women and men in late medieval France.

Author: P. Rieder
ISBN-10: 1403969698
ISBN-13: 9781403969699
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 06/16/2011
Pages: 257
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.00w x 0.82d
By P. Rieder
By P. Rieder
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PAULA RIEDER is Assistant Professor at University of Nebraska, USA.

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