On the Purification of Women : Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500
ISBN: 9781137050144
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan
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Subjects: History;

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. The 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.

PAULA RIEDER is Assistant Professor at University of Nebraska, USA.

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