The High Middle Ages

by Kari Brresen, Adriana Valerio, Kari Elisabeth Børresen

Book Overview

The latest volume in the Bible and Women series examines the relationship between women and the Bible's reception in the centuries of the High and Late Middle Ages in Europe. Contributors bring a variety of new insights into how women of the Bible were treated in literary, mystical, and doctrinal texts as well as in art and music. Though the Bible was used to legitimize the subordination of women to men and to exclude them from power, during this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884140490
• ISBN13: 9780884140498
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: SBL Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"