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Reviews
Offers a useful and detailed addition for scholars examining women's relationships with the cults of certain female saints and incarnational piety. It also sheds light on the pious practices of women from the social strata below that of the nobility or gentry. * URBAN HISTORY *
Contributes significantly to our understanding of medieval society, culture and beliefs. * ANNUAL BULLETIN OF HISTORICAL LITERATURE *
A powerful exposition of local and localized piety. * MEDIEVAL PROSOPOGRAPHY, vol. 28, 2013 *
The intention of this book is to demonstrate the significance of Norwich as a well-connected mercantile community for the development of an organised cult of those saints with a particular resonance for women. In this it succeeds admirably. * HISTORIANS OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS, January 2013 *
Skillful, informative and thought provoking [...] Hill's creative use of material and testamentary, as well as literary and archival sources to recover the piety of women from social strata below that of the nobility and gentry make Women and Religion in Late Medieval Norwich an excellent textbook for university courses in medieval culture and religion, and medieval gender studies and women's studies. * MEDIEVAL REVIEW *
An interesting and thought-provoking book which throws new light on our understanding of the feminine aspects of religious life in the long fifteenth century. * THE RICARDIAN *
Book Information
ISBN 9780861933464
Author Carole Hill
Format Paperback
Page Count 234
Imprint Royal Historical Society
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd