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On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500

On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500

Hardcover

Series: New Middle Ages

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryReligion General General Christianity

Publisher Price: $54.99

ISBN10: 1403969698
ISBN13: 9781403969699
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jun 16 2011
Pages: 257
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
This book is a social history of the ritual and custom of churching, a liturgical rite of purification after childbirth performed on a woman's first visit to church after giving birth. The book describes the development of the rite from its original meaning as a response to blood pollution to its redefinition as a rite that honoured marriage.

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