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Author McSheffrey, Shannon.

Title Gender and heresy : women and men in Lollard communities, 1420-1530 / Shannon McSheffrey
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 253 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Middle Ages series
Middle Ages series
Contents Gender and religious deviance -- Lollardy -- The communities -- The Lollards of Coventry -- The Lollard prosecutions in Coventry -- The Coventry conventicles -- Coventry's civic oligarchy and the Lollard community -- The Coventry Lollard community in perspective -- The Lollard communities -- Schools and conventicles -- Lollard activities outside the conventicles -- Lollards and recruitment to the sect -- Lollards and the family -- Lollard beliefs and the family -- Family relationships in the Lollard communities -- Gender and social status -- Prominent women in Lollardy -- Prominent men and elite men in Lollardy -- Conclusion: Lollardy, gender, and late medieval religious culture -- Women and late medieval religion -- Lollardy and orthodoxy -- Gender and religion -- The Lollard communities -- Alnwick's prosecutions in East Angelia, 1428-31 -- Chedworth's prosecutions in the Chiltern Hills, 1462-64 -- Langton's prosecutions in the Diocese of Salisbury, 1485-91 -- J. Blythe's prosecutions in the Diocese of Salisbury, 1499 -- Audley's prosecutions in the Diocese of Salisbury, 1502-21 -- Prosecutions and detections in the dioceses of Salisbury and Winchester before Bishop Longland, c. 1521 -- Smith's and Longland's prosecutions in the Diocese of Lincoln, 1500-1530 -- Prosecutions in London and environs and Hertfordshire, 1500-1530 -- Prosecutions in Essex and Hertfordshire, 1500-1530 -- Warham's prosecutions in the Diocese of Canterbury, 1511-12 -- Hales's and G. Blyth's prosecutions in Coventry, 1485-1512
Summary Shannon McSheffrey studies the communities of the late medieval English heretics, the Lollards, and presents unexpected conclusions about the precise ways in which gender shaped participation and interaction within the movement
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and index
Notes In English
Print version record
Subject Lollards.
Christian heresies -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Case studies
Sex role -- England -- History
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Christian heresies -- Middle Ages
Lollards
Sex role
Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
SUBJECT England -- Church history -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043265
Subject England
Genre/Form Case studies
Church history
History
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 95037249
ISBN 0585147175
9780585147178
9780812203967
0812203968
0812233107
9780812233100
0812215494
9780812215496
1283212153
9781283212151
9786613212153
6613212156
Other Titles Gender & heresy