Proving Woman: Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages by Dyan Elliott

Proving Woman: Female Spirituality and Inquisitional Culture in the Later Middle Ages

Dyan Elliott

368 pages • first pub 2004 (view editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's most sophisticated weapons in the fight against heresy. Holy women's claims to be in direct communication with God placed them in positions of unprecedented...

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