Gender and Authority in the Late Medieval Church: A New History

by Ian Forrest

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 historiography--and is connected to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501781995
• ISBN13: 9781501781995
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 318 Pages