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Author More, Alison, 1975- author.

Title Fictive orders and feminine religious identities, 1200-1600 / Alison More
Published Oxford, OX : Oxford University Press, 2018

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Contents Penitents and the institutionalization of penitential life in the thirteenth century -- After supra montem -- The Western schism, observant reform, and institutionalization -- Creating a textual identity? Pastroalia and models of tertiary life -- Order and idetntity in women's communities -- Unification and regularization in the sixteenth-century spiritual climate
Summary Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities traces the story of pious laywomen in Europe from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, examining the ways these women were active and engaged in their social and intellectual worlds, while also tracing the formation of modern perceptions about gender roles and the reasons why they persisted
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 05, 2018)
Subject Beguines -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Women in the Catholic Church -- History -- To 1500
Women and religion -- Europe -- History
Women -- Religious life.
RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Beguines
Women and religion
Women in the Catholic Church
Women -- Religious life
Europe
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780192534729
0192534726
9780191845512
0191845515