Women and Pilgrimage in Medieval Galicia

Informationen zum Autor Carlos Andrés Gonzalez-Paz is a researcher at the Instituto de Estudios Gallegos 'Padre Sarmiento', a R&D centre of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), located in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Klappentext For many in the Middle Ages, pilgrimages were seen to represent a risk of moral and religious perdition for women, who were generally discouraged from making them. Women and Pilgrimage in Medieval Galicia represents an analysis of the social history of women based on documentary sources and physical evidence, breaking away from literary and historiographical stereotypes, while at the same time contributing to a critical assessment of the myth that medieval women were kept hidden away from the world. Zusammenfassung For many in the Middle Ages, pilgrimages were seen to represent a risk of moral and religious perdition for women, who were generally discouraged from making them. Women and Pilgrimage in Medieval Galicia represents an analysis of the social history of women based on documentary sources and physical evidence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Galicia: a land of Pilgrimage. Women and the Christian Middle Ages. The theoretical horizon. Women and pilgrimage in medieval Galicia. Guncina Gonzalez volens ire Iherusalem. Maria Balteira, a woman crusader to Outremer. Isabel, princess of Aragon (1270-1336): Queen of Portugal, pilgrim and saint. French noblewomen on pilgrimage to Compostela in the Middle Ages. Birgitta of Sweden and her pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. Women, pilgrimage and art on the road to Santiago. Life, pilgrimage and women in Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria. Women and feigned pilgrimages.

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• Authors: Carlos Andres Gonzalez-Paz, Carlos Andrés González-Paz, Carlos AndrTs (EDT) Gonzßlez-paz
• Assisted by: Carlos Andres Gonzalez-Paz (Editor), Gonzalez-Paz Carlos Andres (Editor)
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.02.2015
• EAN: 9781472410702
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-1070-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Compostela International Studies in Pilgrimage History and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, Spain, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, HISTORY / Women, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Christianity, History of Religion, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Gender studies: women, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Gender studies: women and girls, The Early Church