Gender and Authority in the Late Medieval Church: A New History - Hardcover
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Gender and Authority in the Late Medieval Church: A New History
Gender and Authority in the Late Medieval Church asks a deceptively simple question: How did the governance of the medieval institutional church remain exclusively male, despite plentiful evidence of women being as capable and devout as men? The remarkable endurance of an all-male clergy is an important element of medieval church government--one that is frequently taken for granted in the...
Ian Forrest is Head of Humanities at the University of Glasgow. He was previously Professor of Social and Religious History at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Trustworthy Men and The Detection of Heresy in Late Medieval England.
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