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Women, Men, and Spiritual Power: Female Saints and Their Male Collaborators
John Coakley
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Hardback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 312 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
In Women, Men, and Spiritual Power, John Coakley explores male-authored narratives of the lives of Catherine of Siena, Hildegard of Bingen, Angela of Foligno, and six other female prophets or mystics of the late Middle Ages. His readings reveal the complex personal and literary relationships between these women and the clerics who wrote about them. Coakley's work also undermines simplistic characterizations of male control over women, offering an important contribution to medieval religious history. Coakley shows that these male-female relationships were marked by a fundamental tension between power and fascination: the priests and monks were supposed to hold authority ... Read more
In Women, Men, and Spiritual Power, John Coakley explores male-authored narratives of the lives of Catherine of Siena, Hildegard of Bingen, Angela of Foligno, and six other female prophets or mystics of the late Middle Ages. His readings reveal the complex personal and literary relationships between these women and the clerics who wrote about them. Coakley's work also undermines simplistic characterizations of male control over women, offering an important contribution to medieval religious history. Coakley shows that these male-female relationships were marked by a fundamental tension between power and fascination: the priests and monks were supposed to hold authority ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231134002
SKU
V9780231134002
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About John Coakley
John W. Coakley is the L. Russell Feakes Professor of Church History, New Brunswick Theological Seminary. He is the coeditor (with Andrea Sterk) of Readings in World Christian History.
Reviews for Women, Men, and Spiritual Power: Female Saints and Their Male Collaborators
Coakley's clear conceptual framework alone would be extraordinarily helpful to excerpt as a brief introduction to the primary questions in the field. Church History Women, Men, and Spiritual Power is an enlightening book.
Jessica Andruss Comitatus Coakley illuminates an important dimension of gender relations in the medieval church... Recommended. Choice Well-researched and insightful... Women, Men, and Spiritual Power fills ... Read more
Jessica Andruss Comitatus Coakley illuminates an important dimension of gender relations in the medieval church... Recommended. Choice Well-researched and insightful... Women, Men, and Spiritual Power fills ... Read more