Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities, 1200-1600
More, Alison
Questions dominant historical narratives and shows the ways they have influenced modern understanding of pre-modern women's roles in their social and intellectual world.~Offers an alternative historiography that enables voices that are generally marginal to be heard~Demonstrates the ways in which labels and libels were fluid, socially constructed, and reflective of the time in which they emerged~Examines the continuities from the later medieva...