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From Virile Woman to WomanChrist - Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature (Paperback, New)
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From Virile Woman to WomanChrist - Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature (Paperback, New)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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Why did hagiographers of the late Middle Ages praise mothers for
abandoning small children? How did a group of female mystics come
to define themselves as "apostles to the dead" and end by
challenging God's right to damn? Why did certain heretics around
1300 venerate a woman as the Holy Spirit incarnate and another as
the Angelic Pope? In From Virile Woman to WomanChrist, Barbara
Newman asks these and other questions to trace a gradual and
ambiguous transition in the gender strategies of medieval religious
women. An egalitarian strain in early Christianity affirmed that
once she asserted her commitment to Christ through a vow of
chastity, monastic profession, or renunciation of family ties, a
woman could become "virile," or equal to a man. While the ideal of
the "virile woman" never disappeared, another ideal slowly evolved
in medieval Christianity. By virtue of some gender-related
trait-spotless virginity, erotic passion, the capacity for intense
suffering, the ability to imagine a feminine aspect of the
Godhead-a devout woman could be not only equal, but superior to
men; without becoming male, she could become a "womanChrist,"
imitating and representing Christ in uniquely feminine ways. Rooted
in women's concrete aspirations and sufferings, Newman's
"womanChrist" model straddles the bounds of orthodoxy and heresy to
illuminate the farther reaches of female religious behavior in the
Middle Ages. From Virile Woman to WomanChrist will generate
compelling discussion in the fields of medieval literature and
history, history of religion, theology, and women's studies.
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