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From Virile Woman to Womanchrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature
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by Barbara Newman

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Why 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 WomanChrist, 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 "womanChrist," imitating and representing Christ in uniquely feminine ways.

Rooted in women's concrete aspirations and sufferings, Newman's "womanChrist" 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 WomanChrist will generate compelling discussion in the fields of medieval literature and history, history of religion, theology, and women's studies.

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  • Title From Virile Woman to Womanchrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature
  • Author Barbara Newman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Second Printing
  • Pages 424
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1995-01-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780812215458 / 0812215451
  • Weight 1.31 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.94 x 6.02 x 0.87 in (22.71 x 15.29 x 2.21 cm)
  • Reading level 1560
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500, Literature, Medieval - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 94037704
  • Dewey Decimal Code 909.07

About the author

Barbara Newman is Professor of English and Religion at Northwestern University. She is author of Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine and editor and translator of Hildegard of Bingen's Symphonia.
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