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On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500 (New Middle Ages)
Paula M. Rieder
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Description for On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500 (New Middle Ages)
Hardcover. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLC; HR; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 508.
This book is a social history of the ritual and custom of churching, a liturgical rite of purification after childbirth performed on a woman's first visit to church after giving birth. The book describes the development of the rite from its original meaning as a response to blood pollution to its redefinition as a rite that honoured marriage.
This book is a social history of the ritual and custom of churching, a liturgical rite of purification after childbirth performed on a woman's first visit to church after giving birth. The book describes the development of the rite from its original meaning as a response to blood pollution to its redefinition as a rite that honoured marriage.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
New Middle Ages
Number of Pages
257
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403969699
SKU
V9781403969699
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99-15
About Paula M. Rieder
PAULA RIEDER is Assistant Professor at University of Nebraska, USA.
Reviews for On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500 (New Middle Ages)
"An important part of the success of Rieder's study is her emphasis on the possiblities for women to take a seemingly prescriptive ceremony and imbue it with their own meanings....Rieder successfully insists on the alternative meanings of churching." - Medieval Feminist Forum"Paula M. Rieder's learned, careful book examining the ritual reincorporation of postpartum mothers into the parishes of medieval France ... Read more