Shannon McSheffrey

Gender and Heresy

Women and Men in Lollard Communities, 1420-1530

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Produktbeschreibung

Shannon McSheffrey studies the communities of the late medieval English heretics, the Lollards, and presents unexpected conclusions about the precise ways in which gender shaped participation within the movement. While much recent scholarship has contended that heresies offered medieval women opportunities for religious and social expression that they could not find in orthodoxy, Gender and Heresy demonstrates that the Lollard movement provided no such outlet. Within Lollardy, challenges to orthodoxy did not lead to questioning of dominant medieval gender categories. McSheffrey examines the archival and printed sources for the later Lollard communities to analyze the activities, relationships, and beliefs of the individuals who made up these groups. Her study emphasizes how complex interactions between socioeconomic status, gender identities, and religious culture shaped participation in religious movements.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780812215496
• ISBN-10: 0812215494
• Artikelnr.: 22323903

Autorenporträt

Shannon McSheffrey is Associate Professor of History at Concordia University in Montreal and author of three other books, including Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. The Lollards of Coventry
3. The Lollard Communities
4. Lollards and the Family
5. Gender and Social Status
6. Conclusion: Lollardy, Gender, and Late Medieval Religious Culture
Appendix: The Lollard Communities
Notes
Works Cited
Index