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A History of Women in Christianity to 1600

Hannah Matis

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Description:This book concentrates on women's experience, but it should nevertheless be a cogent summary of the major events within the history of Christianity. It does not present women and women's experience as marginal or peripheral to the main narrative of Christianity but as significant actors within it. It aims to introduce students and the more general reader to figures who are well known within specialized academic discourse but often ignored in broad-brush narratives. It attempts to synthesize often diffuse areas of scholarship into a single, easily accessible volume, and to act as a resource for teachers and clergy who are looking for an introduction to the material but do not know how to begin. Finally, it attempts to avoid over-simplified or triumphalist confessional approaches to this history.A Women's History of Christianity is an overarching, synthetic narrative of the major figures, movements, and events within the history of Christianity from its origins through the Reformation, paying particular attention to the contributions of women, their relationship with the church, and the forms their spirituality has taken. It is a balanced assessment of how women have engaged with the church, and it with them, with a particular view to showing the complexity of discourses regarding women and gender that exist within Christianity. It grounds these discourses in an analysis of broader, structural and environmental factors that have shaped women's experience of Christianity.I will begin by assessing already existing conceptions of sex and gender that were a part of Hellenistic and Roman culture, with which Christianity had to engage in the same way as its Jewish origins. I will examine how important the experience of martyrdom was for early Christian women in the church, followed by the rise of monasticism after the conversion of Constantine. With the influx of the late Roman aristocracy into the church, I will examine the particular contributions of women to the "patristic" tradition, and the pivotal role played by women in positions of power during, for example, the council of Chalcedon. I will explore how the social and political roles of women changed after the fall of Rome in the barbarian successor kingdoms, and their prominent role in the re-evangelization of Western Europe. Women's monasticism was a particularly potent force in early medieval Europe through the Gregorian Reform. I will then assess the attempts by women like Clare to follow in the footsteps of Francis and the friars, and the impact of the inquisition and the development of the medieval university on women's spirituality. I will argue for the particular energy of women's devotion in the late Middle Ages; the Reformation, therefore, initially builds on rather than departs from the spiritual need of the laity. In making war on the medieval Catholic tradition, however, the Reformation, however, would destroy many of the conventional pathways for women within the church, even as it created new opportunities. The final chapters of the book will compare and contrast each of the major confessions of the church during the Reformation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A History of Women in Christianity to 1600. To get started finding A History of Women in Christianity to 1600, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book concentrates on women's experience, but it should nevertheless be a cogent summary of the major events within the history of Christianity. It does not present women and women's experience as marginal or peripheral to the main narrative of Christianity but as significant actors within it. It aims to introduce students and the more general reader to figures who are well known within specialized academic discourse but often ignored in broad-brush narratives. It attempts to synthesize often diffuse areas of scholarship into a single, easily accessible volume, and to act as a resource for teachers and clergy who are looking for an introduction to the material but do not know how to begin. Finally, it attempts to avoid over-simplified or triumphalist confessional approaches to this history.A Women's History of Christianity is an overarching, synthetic narrative of the major figures, movements, and events within the history of Christianity from its origins through the Reformation, paying particular attention to the contributions of women, their relationship with the church, and the forms their spirituality has taken. It is a balanced assessment of how women have engaged with the church, and it with them, with a particular view to showing the complexity of discourses regarding women and gender that exist within Christianity. It grounds these discourses in an analysis of broader, structural and environmental factors that have shaped women's experience of Christianity.I will begin by assessing already existing conceptions of sex and gender that were a part of Hellenistic and Roman culture, with which Christianity had to engage in the same way as its Jewish origins. I will examine how important the experience of martyrdom was for early Christian women in the church, followed by the rise of monasticism after the conversion of Constantine. With the influx of the late Roman aristocracy into the church, I will examine the particular contributions of women to the "patristic" tradition, and the pivotal role played by women in positions of power during, for example, the council of Chalcedon. I will explore how the social and political roles of women changed after the fall of Rome in the barbarian successor kingdoms, and their prominent role in the re-evangelization of Western Europe. Women's monasticism was a particularly potent force in early medieval Europe through the Gregorian Reform. I will then assess the attempts by women like Clare to follow in the footsteps of Francis and the friars, and the impact of the inquisition and the development of the medieval university on women's spirituality. I will argue for the particular energy of women's devotion in the late Middle Ages; the Reformation, therefore, initially builds on rather than departs from the spiritual need of the laity. In making war on the medieval Catholic tradition, however, the Reformation, however, would destroy many of the conventional pathways for women within the church, even as it created new opportunities. The final chapters of the book will compare and contrast each of the major confessions of the church during the Reformation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A History of Women in Christianity to 1600. To get started finding A History of Women in Christianity to 1600, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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