LEADER 04617nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910778973603321 005 20230606232128.0 010 $a1-283-89189-1 010 $a0-8122-0026-8 010 $a0-585-17280-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812200263 035 $a(CKB)111004368590030 035 $a(OCoLC)44954070 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10577301 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000159148 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11146973 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000159148 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10159317 035 $a(PQKB)10076623 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3141 035 $a(DE-B1597)448884 035 $a(OCoLC)979970035 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812200263 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441706 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10577301 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420439 035 $a(OCoLC)929157190 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441706 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004368590030 100 $a19940913h19951995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFrom virile woman to womanChrist $estudies in medieval religion and literature /$fBarbara Newman 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d1995. 210 4$aŠ1995 215 $a1 online resource (355 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-1545-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [321]-343) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tIntroduction --$t1. Flaws in the Golden Bowl: Gender and Spiritual Formation in the Twelfth Century --$t2. Authority, Authenticity, and the Repression of Heloise --$t3. "Crueel Corage": Child Sacrifice and the Maternal Martyr in Hagiography and Romance --$t4. On the Threshold of the Dead: Purgatory, Hell, and Religious Women --$t5. La mystique courtoise: Thirteenth- Century Beguines and the Art of Love --$t6. Woman Spirit, Woman Pope --$tEpilogue --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tAppendix A: Religious Literature of Formation, 1075-1225 --$tAppendix E: Glossary of Religious Women --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aWhy did hagiographers of the late Middle Ages praise mothers for abandoning small children? How did a group of female mystics come to define themselves as "apostles to the dead" and end by challenging God's right to damn? Why did certain heretics around 1300 venerate a woman as the Holy Spirit incarnate and another as the Angelic Pope? In From Virile Woman to Woman Christ, Barbara Newman asks these and other questions to trace a gradual and ambiguous transition in the gender strategies of medieval religious women. An egalitarian strain in early Christianity affirmed that once she asserted her commitment to Christ through a vow of chastity, monastic profession, or renunciation of family ties, a woman could become "virile," or equal to a man. While the ideal of the "virile woman" never disappeared, another ideal slowly evolved in medieval Christianity. By virtue of some gender-related trait?spotless virginity, erotic passion, the capacity for intense suffering, the ability to imagine a feminine aspect of the Godhead?a devout woman could be not only equal, but superior to men; without becoming male, she could become a "woman Christ," imitating and representing Christ in uniquely feminine ways. Rooted in women's concrete aspirations and sufferings, Newman's "woman Christ" model straddles the bounds of orthodoxy and heresy to illuminate the farther reaches of female religious behavior in the Middle Ages. From Virile Woman to Woman Christ will generate compelling discussion in the fields of medieval literature and history, history of religion, theology, and women's studies. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aWomen in Christianity$xHistory 606 $aWomen and literature$zEurope$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChurch history$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aMiddle Ages 615 0$aWomen in Christianity$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChurch history 615 0$aMiddle Ages. 676 $a274/.05 700 $aNewman$b Barbara$f1953-$01472165 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778973603321 996 $aFrom virile woman to womanChrist$93851599 997 $aUNINA