Wandering Women and Holy Matrons

Women as Pilgrims in the Later Middle Ages
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17426-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 138, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

This book explores women’s experiences of pilgrimage in Latin Christendom between 1300 and 1500 C.E. Later medieval authors harbored grave doubts about women’s mobility; literary images of mobile women commonly accused them of lust, pride, greed, and deceit. Yet real women commonly engaged in pilgrimage in a variety of forms, both physical and spiritual, voluntary and compulsory, and to locations nearby and distant. Acting within both practical and social constraints, such women helped to construct more positive interpretations of their desire to travel and of their experiences as pilgrims. Regardless of how their travel was interpreted, those women who succeeded in becoming pilgrims offer us a rare glimpse of ordinary women taking on extraordinary religious and social authority.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Craig, Leigh Ann

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. “She Koude Muchel of Wandrynge by the Weye:” Pilgrimage and the Fear of Wandering Women

3. “The Mother Prayed, the Daughter Felt Relief:” Women and Miraculous Pilgrimage

4. “Stronger than Men and Braver than Knights:” Women and Devotional Pilgrimage

5. “She Was Brought to the Shrine by Force:” Women and Compulsory Pilgrimage

6. “That You Cannot See Them Comes only from an Impossibility:” Women and Non-Corporeal Pilgrimage

7. Home Again: Conclusions on Women as Pilgrims in the Later Middle Ages

Appendix
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Leigh Ann Craig, PhD (2001) in Medieval History, The Ohio State University, is Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has published on medieval pilgrimage and miracle collections, and is an associate editor for the Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage (Brill, 2009).