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1 online resource (447 pages) |
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Creating the widow in the early church -- The widow and the cloister: early medieval hagiography -- The veil and the vow: professed widowhood in canon law and liturgical manuscripts -- Chaste widows and the penitential ethos in later medieval hagiography -- Managing the matron: widowhood in medieval sermon literature -- Reading widows: grief, memory, and the parody of chaste widowhood in medieval literature -- Like a picture before the eyes: transitions to the early modern world. |
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9780813230207 (e-book) |
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0813230209 |
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9780813230191 |
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0813230195 |
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40028668543 |
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