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Maeve Brigid Callan Sacred sisters
gender, sanctity, and power in medieval Ireland
This book focuses on five saints: the four female Irish saints who have extant medieval biographies (Darerca, Brigid, Íte, and Samthann), and Patrick, whose writings -- fifth-century Ireland’s sole surviving texts -- attest to the centrality of women in Irish Christianity’s development. Women served as leaders and teachers, perhaps even as bishops and priests, and men and women worked together in a variety of arrangements as well as independently. Previous studies of gender in medieval Ireland have...
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Engels | 308 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2020
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