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On the Purification of Women - Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500 (Hardcover)
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On the Purification of Women - Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500 (Hardcover)
Series: The New Middle Ages
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This book is a social history of the ritual and custom of
churching, a liturgical rite of purification after childbirth
performed on a woman's first visit to church after giving birth.
This book describes the development of the rite from its original
meaning as a response to blood pollution to its redefinition as a
rite that honoured marriage. It also examines its use by French
bishops as a disciplinary tool enforcing the church's definitions
of marriage and lay sexuality and explores the ways that women,
families, and clergymen manipulated the rite for their own
purposes. This study focuses on northern France and is based on a
wide variety of sources, including sermons, penitential literature,
court records, liturgies and illuminated manuscripts. It will be of
particular interest to students and scholars of women's history,
gender and sexuality, and the relationship between church and
society.
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