Wandering Women and Holy Matrons: Women as Pilgrims in the Later Middle AgesThis book explores women’s experiences of pilgrimage in Latin Christendom between 1300 and 1500 C.E. Later medieval authors harbored grave doubts about women’s mobility; literary images of mobile women commonly accused them of lust, pride, greed, and deceit. Yet real women commonly engaged in pilgrimage in a variety of forms, both physical and spiritual, voluntary and compulsory, and to locations nearby and distant. Acting within both practical and social constraints, such women helped to construct more positive interpretations of their desire to travel and of their experiences as pilgrims. Regardless of how their travel was interpreted, those women who succeeded in becoming pilgrims offer us a rare glimpse of ordinary women taking on extraordinary religious and social authority. |
Contents
Chapter One Introduction | 1 |
Pilgrimage and the Fear of Wandering Women | 21 |
Women and Miraculous Pilgrimage | 79 |
Women and Devotional Pilgrimage | 131 |
Women and Compulsory Pilgrimage | 175 |
Women and NonCorporeal Pilgrimage | 221 |
Conclusions on Women as Pilgrims in the Later Middle Ages | 261 |
Appendix | 269 |
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Acta et Processus Acta Sanctorum Alison appear Arnold von Harff Bath’s Prologue behavior Bellorini and Hoade bequests Bernard Gui Birgitta of Sweden Caciola Canonizacionis Beate Birgitte canonization caregiving cathare Christian Christina Christine de Pizan church Collijn compulsory pilgrimage cult Decameron demoniac demons Devil devotional Evagatorium example exempla experiences Fabri female pilgrims feminine gender Golubovich Guillaume de Lorris healing heresy heretics Holy Land husband imaginative Inquisition intercessors Jean de Meun Jerusalem journey Kempe’s Late Medieval later Middle Ages livre des sentences lust male pilgrims Margery Kempe marriage matrons medieval women miracle stories narratives Pales-Gobillard physical possession Processus Canonizacionis Beate quod recorded religious rituals Riverside Chaucer role Roman Rome saints satire seven late-medieval miracle sexual shrine Simone sine sensu social specific spiritual Sumption suppliants Suriano Theophrastus trans tratto Treatise University Press Vadstena Vielle Wanderings Wife of Bath’s woman Women Pilgrims women’s mobility women’s pilgrimages þat