Household, Women, and Christianities: in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

272 Pages·2005·4.06 MB·English

by  Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker

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HOUSEHOLD, WOMEN,
AND CHRISTIANITIES
in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
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MEDIEVAL WOMEN: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS

Editorial Board under the auspices of the
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Hull

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (University of Pittsburgh)
Juliette Dor (Université de Liège)
Constant J. Mews (Monash University)
Anneke Mulder-Bakker (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Barbara Newman (Northwestern University)
Gabriella Signori (Universität Münster)
Nicholas Watson (Harvard University)
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University)

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HOUSEHOLD, WOMEN,
AND CHRISTIANITIES
in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Edited by
Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker
and
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Household, women, and Christianities in late antiquity and
the Middle Ages. - (Medieval women : texts and contexts ; 14)
1.Women - Europe - Social conditions 2.Households - Europe
- History - To 1500 3.Christian women - Religious life -
Europe - History - To 1500
I.Mulder-Bakker, Anneke B. II.Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn
305.4'2'094'0902

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To Kari Børresen

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Contents
Acknowledgements ix

List of Abbreviations x

Introduction Part I: Household, Women, and Lived Christianity 1
ANNEKE B. MULDER-BAKKER AND JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE
The Household and the Desert: Monastic and Biological Communities 11
in the Lives of Melania the Younger
KATE COOPER
‘Oikos-Ecclesiology’ and ‘Church Order’ in Eastern Christianity 37
EVA M. SYNEK
The Icon Corner in Medieval Byzantium 71
JUDITH HERRIN
Household and Empire: The Materfamilias 91
as Miles Christi in the Anonymous Handbook for Gregoria
KATE COOPER
Faith, Family, and Fortune: 109
The Effect of Conversion on Women in Scandinavia
BIRGIT SAWYER
Introduction Part II: Medieval Households 125
ANNEKE B. MULDER-BAKKER AND JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE
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‘Our Steward, St Jerome’: Theology and the Anglo-Norman Household 133
JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE
The Monastery as a Household within the Universal Household 167
ELSE MARIE WIBERG PEDERSEN
The Household as a Site of Civic and Religious Instruction: 191
Two Household Books from Late Medieval Brabant
ANNEKE B. MULDER-BAKKER
The Bolton Hours of York: Female Domestic Piety and the Public Sphere 215
SARAH REES JONES AND FELICITY RIDDY

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Acknowledgements
T
his volume owes its existence to a series of conferences on Women in the
Christian Tradition from Late Antiquity to the Reformation, funded by the
European Union’s European Science Foundation (ESF) over 1992–98.
Uniquely in the experience of many of the participants, these conferences did not
demand immediate production of results in the form of conference papers: modelled
on science conferences, they were above all concerned to offer opportunities to hear
from as many researchers as possible. They combined generous time for structured
discussion with particular stress on communication between older and younger
scholars. All the participants in the ESF conferences, including the contributors and
editors of the present volume, remain indebted to the ESF for their funding and sup-
port of the conference series. The dedication of this volume expresses our gratitude
to an outstanding scholar and personality: Kari Børresen. Her scholarship has been
hugely influential in raising and articulating the problems of conceiving Christian
doctrine and history in simply androcentric terms, and it was her vision and energy
that inaugurated and sustained the ESF conference series, the first such to deal expli-
citly with women’s historical and cultural roles. All involved owe her a great debt.

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Abbreviations
EETS Early English Text Society
ES Extra Series
OS Original Series
PG Patrologia Cursus Completus, Series Graeca, ed. by J.-P.
Migne (Paris, 1861–64)
PL Patrologia Cursus Completus, Series Latina, ed. by J.-P.
Migne (Paris, 1861–64)
RS Rolls Series
SC Sources Chrétiennes

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