Patterns of Piety - Women, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation England

Informationen zum Autor Graduating from St Hugh's College, Oxford, the author travelled widely in Eastern Europe on a Leverhulme Scholarship and was a Fellow at the Warburg Institute before transferring to Oxford. She has published articles based on the first part of her doctoral thesis in Past and Present and Continuity and Change. This is her first book. Klappentext This book offers an interpretation of the transition from Catholicism to Protestantism in the English Reformation! and explores its implications for an understanding of women and gender. Zusammenfassung This 2003 book offers an interpretation of the transition from Catholicism to Protestantism in the English Reformation! and explores its implications for an understanding of women and gender. Central to this is an appreciation of the significance of medieval Christocentric piety in offering a bridge to the Reformation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I: 1. Religious roles; 2. Religious choices; 3. The Virgin Mary and Christocentric devotion; 4. The saints; 5. Eve and the responsibility for sin; Part II: 6. Responses to Reformation change; 7. Parish religion in the Reformation; 8. The godly woman; 9. The Virgin Mary and the saints; 10. The return to the Old Testament; 11. Martyrs; 12. Adam's fall; 13. Godly marriage; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Christine Peters, Christine (The Queen''s College Peters, Peters Christine
• Assisted by: Anthony Fletcher (Editor), John Guy (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2003
• EAN: 9780521580625
• ISBN: 978-0-521-58062-5
• No. of pages: 410
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Mod; Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; England, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, HISTORY / Women, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Christianity, CE period up to c 1500, History of Religion, British & Irish history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Gender studies: women, Church history, Gender studies: women and girls, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval