Women in the church : papers read at the 1989 Summer Meeting and the 1990 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society
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Women in the church : papers read at the 1989 Summer Meeting and the 1990 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society
（Studies in church history, 27）
Published for the Society by B. Blackwell, 1990
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This volume offers a historical assessment of the role of women in the Christian Churches - their actions, thoughts and reputations - from their position in the fourth-century Church to the twentieth century. The emphasis is upon ordinary women, as they provide the domestic setting for the spiritual life of the family, or go to church, or to confession, or to be churched after childbirth, or to give hospitality to male itinerant preachers. However, there is also discussion of the influences of some empresses and queens, such as Empress Judith, wife of Louis the Pious and Queen Victoria. The female saints of illuminated manuscripts, stained-glass window and rood-screen also evoke home and family. Yet not all women were conventially pious: some drifted into heresy, superstition or fanaticism, such as Elizabeth of Spalbeek in the thirteenth century, or the Anabaptist Frena of Appenzell, both of whom saw themselves as reincarnations of Christ. The comtemplatives too have their place here: they range from the the noble nun Immena, in the Carolingian period, to working-class women in Victorian convents.
But many preferred a more active life: perhaps as Quaker itinerant Ministers, overseas missionaries, founders or members of religious sects, or as evangelists in Victorian cities. The book's scope is broad, ranging across Europe from the nuns of the middle ages to female Puritans of the 17th century and social Catholics in turn-of-the-century France, to Edwardian supporters of the ordination of women. The authors aim to reveal how throughout the history of the Christian Churches, women have had to struggle against theological prohibition and prejudice.
Table of Contents
- Women in the writings of the fathers
- Agobard of Lyons and Paschesius Radbertus as Critics of the Empress Judith
- the nun Immena and the foundation of the Abbey of Beaulieu
- woman and the word in the eatlier Middle Ages
- women in the Ottonian Church
- daughters of Rome
- phenomenal religion in the 13th century and its image
- the common woman in the Western Church in the 13th and early 14th centuries
- women and home
- Holy Maydens, Holy Wyfes
- aristocracy or Meritocra
- female strategies for success in a male-ordered world
- on ministering to "Certayne Devoute and religious women"
- segregation in Church
- a "Messiah for Women"
- the religious life of women in 16th century Yorkshire
- the reformation and Elizabeth Bowes
- Shunemites and nurses of the English reformation
- a priesthood of she-believers
- Samuel Clarke and the lives of Godly women in 17th century England
- purity, profanity, and puritanism
- "Let Your Women Keep Silence in the Churches" - new women in the Dutch reforme Church evaded Paul's Admonition, 1650-1700
- Quakerism and its implication for Quaker Women
- "Lights in Dark Places" - women Evangelists in early victorian Britain, 1838-1857
- the cultivation of the heart and the moulding of the will - the missionary contribution of the society for promoting female education in China, India, and the East
- women in victorian church music
- lay-sisters and good mothers
- women in social Catholicism in late 19th and early 20th century France
- the end of victorian values? women, religion, and the death of Queen Victoria
- a truning-point in the ministry of women.
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