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The Religious Life of Lay Women
Crossing Public and Private Boundaries in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Series: - Numen Book Series, Volume: 189
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This volume invites you to rethink womenâs religious lives in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Did laywomen truly belong to the private sphere? Drawing on texts, archaeology, and material culture, it shows how women shaped religious practice across homes, churches, and in-between spaces. You encounter patrons, pilgrims, healers, and everyday believers whose actions crossed boundaries and redefined authority. By focusing on lived religion and spatial experience, this book reveals women as active agents, not passive recipients. Bringing together new case studies and interdisciplinary methods, it offers a fresh, compelling perspective on early medieval Christianity and opens new paths for research.
Lilian R. G. Diniz, Ph.D. (2017), is Assistant Professor at Caâ Foscari University of Venice. She researches popular religion, healing, and women from the late antiquity to the early medieval Mediterranean, and has held positions in Berlin, Madrid, and Hamburg.
Scholars, graduate students, and academic libraries in Late Antiquity, medieval history, religious studies, and gender studies; specialists in early Christianity, lived religion, and womenâs history.