W., The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Middle Ages, New York 1991.Atkinson, Clarissa W. The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the ...
Since the patristic age, Christians have held ambivalent notions about the meaning of virginity and the status of the virgin. Inthe early MiddleAges, ...
Since the patristic age, Christians have held ambivalent notions about the meaning of virginity and the status of the virgin. Inthe early MiddleAges, a physiological definition prevailed; after the thirteenth century, there was an i...
REVIEWS CLARISSA WATKINSON.Mystic andPilgrim:The Book and the Worldof Margery Kempe. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1983, Pp. 241. $8.95 paper. This book is a very useful study of the enigmatic character of the medieval...