Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe
Bitel, Lisa M / Lifshitz, Felice
Gender and Christianity in Medieval EuropeNew PerspectivesEdited by Lisa M. Bitel and Felice LifshitzIn Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe, six historians explore how medieval people professed Christianity, how they performed gender, and how the two coincided. Many of the daily religious decisions people made were influenced by gender roles, the authors contend. Women's pious donations, for instance, were limited by laws of inheritance...