Women and Pilgrimage in Medieval Galicia

Herausgeber: Gonzalez-Paz, Carlos Andres

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For many in the Middle Ages, pilgrimages were seen to represent a risk of moral and religious perdition for women, who were generally discouraged from making them. Women and Pilgrimage in Medieval Galicia represents an analysis of the social history of women based on documentary sources and physical evidence, breaking away from literary and historiographical stereotypes, while at the same time contributing to a critical assessment of the myth that medieval women were kept hidden away from the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781472410702
• ISBN-10: 147241070X
• Artikelnr.: 44637597

Autorenporträt

Carlos Andrés Gonzalez-Paz is a researcher at the Instituto de Estudios Gallegos 'Padre Sarmiento', a R&D centre of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), located in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Inhaltsangabe

Galicia: a land of Pilgrimage. Women and the Christian Middle Ages. The
theoretical horizon. Women and pilgrimage in medieval Galicia. Guncina
Gonzalez volens ire Iherusalem. Maria Balteira, a woman crusader to
Outremer. Isabel, princess of Aragon (1270-1336): Queen of Portugal,
pilgrim and saint. French noblewomen on pilgrimage to Compostela in the
Middle Ages. Birgitta of Sweden and her pilgrimage to Santiago de
Compostela. Women, pilgrimage and art on the road to Santiago. Life,
pilgrimage and women in Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria. Women and
feigned pilgrimages.