Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

Book Overview

Between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, women assumed public roles of unprecedented prominence in Italian religious culture. Legally subordinated, politically excluded, socially limited, and ideologically disdained, women's active participation in religious life offered them access to power in all its forms.

These essays explore the involvement of women in religious life throughout northern and central Italy and trace the evolution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226066371
• ISBN13: 9780226066370
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"