A Pernicious Sort of Woman: quasi-religious women and canon lawyers in the later Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780813216225
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Catholic University of America Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders for women (Canon law) -- History -- To 1500; Third orders -- History -- To 1500;

This book provides a thorough examination of the writings of canon lawyers in the late Middle Ages as they come to terms, both in their academic work and also in their roles as judges and advisers, with women who were not, strictly speaking, religious, but who were popularly thought of as such.


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