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Proving woman: female spirituality and inquisitional culture in the later middle ages

2004 Princeton University Press ;ISBN: 0691118604 ;ISBN: 9780691118604 ;ISBN: 9781400826025 ;ISBN: 1400826020 ;ISBN: 9780691059563 ;ISBN: 069105956X ;EISBN: 9781400826025 ;EISBN: 1400826020 ;DOI: 10.1515/9781400826025 ;OCLC: 298104969 ;LCCallNum: BR163.E55 2004

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  • Title:
    Proving woman: female spirituality and inquisitional culture in the later middle ages
  • Author: Elliott, Dyan
  • Subjects: Church history ; Europe ; Heresies ; Heresy ; HISTORY ; Inquisition ; Medieval history ; Middle Ages ; Middle Ages, 600–1500 ; Mysticism ; Religious history ; Religious life ; Spirituality ; To 1500 ; Western ; Women ; Women mystics
  • Description: 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 influence. Yet by the end of the Middle Ages female mystics were frequently mistrusted, derided, and in danger of their lives. The witch hunts were just around the corner. While studies of sanctity and heresy tend to be undertaken separately, Proving Woman brings these two avenues of inquiry together by associating the downward trajectory of holy women with medieval society’s progressive reliance on the inquisitional procedure. Inquisition was soon used for resolving most questions of proof. It was employed for distinguishing saints and heretics; it underwrote the new emphasis on confession in both sacramental and judicial spheres; and it heralded the reintroduction of torture as a mechanism for extracting proof through confession.
  • Publisher: Princeton: Princeton University Press
  • Creation Date: 2009
  • Format: 368
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0691118604
    ISBN: 9780691118604
    ISBN: 9781400826025
    ISBN: 1400826020
    ISBN: 9780691059563
    ISBN: 069105956X
    EISBN: 9781400826025
    EISBN: 1400826020
    DOI: 10.1515/9781400826025
    OCLC: 298104969
    LCCallNum: BR163.E55 2004
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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