Patterns of piety: women, gender, and religion in later medieval and Reformation England

"This book offers a new 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 br...

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1. Verfasser: Peters, Christine (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge University Press 2003
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in early modern British history
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Zusammenfassung:"This book offers a new 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 Reformation, and in shaping the nature of Protestantism in the period up to the Civil War. Not only does this explain much of the support for Protestantism, but it also suggests the need to question assumptions that the 'loss' of the Virgin Mary and the saints was detrimental to women."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-379) and index
Beschreibung:xv, 389 p. ill. : 24 cm
ISBN:0521580625