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Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg.
Forgetful of their Sex: Female Sanctity and Society ca. 500-1100.
Publisher: Chicago U.P., 1998.
ISBN 0226740536;
ISBN-13: 9780226740539.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 160x233x40mm.
Page count: text xii,587pp; plates 24pp (printed on text paper).
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some mild general wear, some scuffs to the dustjacket, some small marks to the page edges; in other respects doesn’t look too heavily used, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £22.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price $50.00]
Weight without packaging: 1010g.

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Contents: Saints’ lives as a source for the history of women; Making of the mulier sancta — public & private roles; Sanctity & the heroics of virginity; Marriage & domestic proselytization; Motherhood & sanctity; Sorores sanctae & their saintly siblings — terrestrial & celestial bonds; Gender relationships & circles of friendship among the mulieres sanctae; Longevity, death & sanctity — a demographic survey; Epilogue — the celestial gynaecum.

Illustrations: 24 pages of monochrome illustrations
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: 9
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 28pp
Index: yes

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See also | Hagiography | Women’s studies |
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