A Pernicious Sort of Woman": Quasi-Religious Women and Canon Lawyers in the Later Middle Ages

by Elizabeth Makowski and Elizabeth M. Makowski

WINNER OF THE 2007 HISTORY OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD Whether they were secular canonesses or beguines, tertiaries or Sisters of the Common Life, quasi-religious women in the later Middle Ages lived their lives against a backdrop of struggle and insecurity resulting, in large measure, from their ambivalent legal status. Because they lacked one or more of the canonical earmarks of religious women strictly speaking, they had to justify...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813213924
• ISBN13: 9780813213927
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.5"