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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Brides of Christ"”.
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Unruly brides of Christ: virtuous transgression and interruption as ethos in religious women's rhetoric
… three religious women rhetors – St. Catherine of Siena, Sarah Grimke, and Mary Daly – rhetorically navigated and ultimately subverted the stringent ethical codes and gendered expectations imposed on “virtuous women” by crafting an ethos of interruption. Aristotelian ethos, a distinctly male …
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Brides of Christ, royal marriage and the conversion of the English in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica
This thesis is an attempt to determine the role of marriage and women in the overall context of Bede’s HE. It is not intended to comment on the position of women or the importance of marriage in Anglo-Saxon society, although at times this will be referred to, but will endeavour to read Bede’s text …
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An archaeology of female monasticism in medieval Ireland
… to what has become the male monastic template of a claustrally-planned monastery. The research conducted shows a distinct and varied archaeology and architecture for medieval nunneries in Ireland which suggests that a claustral plan was not considered an essential part of a nunnery scheme. …
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Precarity and pastoral care : nuns and bishops in the fifteenth-century diocese of Lincoln.
… to pastoral care befitting their position as the brides of Christ. In late medieval England, this was due to complications of gendered care. In modern scholarship, this is due to a paucity of sources. This dissertation helps remedy the latter problem of source scarcity in order to understand the …