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Letters, religious treatises, saints’ vitae, and monastic rules, among many other documents, reveal the astonishing variety of women’s monastic practices and spiritualities across medieval Europe and Byzantium.
The next two chapters describe the phenomenon of the religious role of women in ruling dynasties in Central and Eastern Europe, especially persuasive women, that is, those who influenced their pagan husbands, sons, or grandsons. The comparative character of this analysis is praiseworthy.
23 mar 2021 · In all these plays it appears that the threat of rape, the physical violation of (mostly female) sexuality, is used as a political tool to restrain female roles and thus restore social order, both of which were common themes in stories about female saints in The Golden Legend.
That was especially important among women, for whom process, by which they grew from good women to she functioned as a new kind of role model. women saints, was the mystical process of meditation Margaret's sense of her own importance derived and vision.
22 mar 2019 · Since the early Middle Ages, several exceptional women have gained public visibility and fame in their communities as saints, mystics and prophets. 1 The Beguines of the Low Countries 2 and the Italian ‘sante vive’ 3 are the best known but are not the only examples.
12 lut 2021 · Pope Francis has called for greater roles for women in church leadership, noting in “Querida Amazonia” that “women have kept the Church alive...through their remarkable devotion and deep...
Influential Catholic women have included theologians, abbesses, monarchs, missionaries, mystics, martyrs, scientists, nurses, hospital administrators, educationalists, religious sisters, Doctors of the Church, and canonised saints. Women constitute the majority of members of consecrated life in the Catholic Church: in 2010, there were around ...
