Anneke B Mulder-bakker

Household, Women, and Christianities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Anneke B Mulder-bakker

Publisher Marketing: Both as God's house and as the dwellings of his monastic and other followers, the history of the church is in part that of an institution conceived as a household. In recent years, secular life and lifestyles in late antiquity and the Middle Ages have been illuminated through renewed attention to the economic and social history of households, while scholarship on women has produced studies of the lives and the devotional reading of laywomen and women religious. This volume is a pioneering collection that unites study of the household with women's religious practices as a focus of enquiry. It moves beyond consideration of the church's roles in women's history to the impact of women's householding on the history of the church. Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2006 pg. 170 (EAN 9782503517780, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn Jocelyn Wogan-Browne is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool.