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Wandering Women and Holy Matrons
Women as Pilgrims in the Later Middle Ages
Series: - Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, Volume: 138
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This book explores womenâs experiences of pilgrimage in Latin Christendom between 1300 and 1500 C.E. Later medieval authors harbored grave doubts about womenâs 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.
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).
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Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. âShe Koude Muchel of Wandrynge by the Weye:â Pilgrimage and the Fear of Wandering Women
3. âThe Mother Prayed, the Daughter Felt Relief:â Women and Miraculous Pilgrimage
4. âStronger than Men and Braver than Knights:â Women and Devotional Pilgrimage
5. âShe Was Brought to the Shrine by Force:â Women and Compulsory Pilgrimage
6. âThat You Cannot See Them Comes only from an Impossibility:â Women and Non-Corporeal Pilgrimage
7. Home Again: Conclusions on Women as Pilgrims in the Later Middle Ages
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. âShe Koude Muchel of Wandrynge by the Weye:â Pilgrimage and the Fear of Wandering Women
3. âThe Mother Prayed, the Daughter Felt Relief:â Women and Miraculous Pilgrimage
4. âStronger than Men and Braver than Knights:â Women and Devotional Pilgrimage
5. âShe Was Brought to the Shrine by Force:â Women and Compulsory Pilgrimage
6. âThat You Cannot See Them Comes only from an Impossibility:â Women and Non-Corporeal Pilgrimage
7. Home Again: Conclusions on Women as Pilgrims in the Later Middle Ages
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
All those interested in this history of women, of medieval popular religion, of the history of the medieval cult of the saints, as well as women's and religious studies specialists.