Proving woman
female spirituality and inquisitional culture in the Later Middle Ages
- ISBN: 9780691118604
- Editorial: Princeton University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2004
- Lugar de la edición: New Jersey. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 350
- Idiomas: Inglés
Papel: Rústica
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In this provocative and forceful book, Dyan Elliott considers the impact of an institutional procedure on the phenomena it was used to assess. "Proving Woman" examines sacramental confession, the inquisition of heretics, and the discernment of spirits as parallel cases of a growing medieval concern with the "proving" of spirituality, especially that of women, by an increasingly skeptical clergy. Elliott carefully sifts through primary sources in diverse genres, including many little- known texts, in her characteristically sharp and lucid prose.
