Gender and authority in the late medieval church: a new history
Auteur :
Forrest, Ian
Éditeur :
Cornell University Press
ISBN :
9781501781995
Date de publication :
15 juin 2025
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
907 g
Format :
Paper over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
How did the governance of the medieval institutional church remain exclusively male, despite plentiful evidence of women being as capable and devout as men? Forrest tells an integrated history that explains how both the exclusion of women and the inclusion of men underpins a rigidly gendered system of religious governance.