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Issue 30 : Women in the Medieval Church

Originally published in 1991

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Women in the Medieval Church: Did You Know?

Jeannette L. Angell
Women in the Medieval Church: From the Editor - In the Middle (Ages) of a Debate

Kevin A. Miller
Catherine of Siena

She lived only 33 years, but her vibrant faith and writings were so influential she has been declared a Doctor of the Church.

Caroline T. Marshall
The Black Death

Catherine of Siena lived—and helped others—during the most devastating plague in human history.

The Editors
Five Religious Options for Medieval Women

In the High Middle Ages, Christian women found many ways to live a holy life.

Ann K. Warren
Terms of the Religious Life
Life in a Medieval Village

From birth to death, a peasant woman's difficult life intersected the church.

Frances and Joseph Gies
Inside the Convent

How did convents arise? Why did so many medieval women enter them?

Jo Ann McNamara
A Skeptic Inside the Nunnery

Spiritual vitality—and tensions—within a twelfth-century priory.
Christian Women Writers of the Medieval World

Meet the first known dramatist of Christianity, the most famous female exegete of the nature of the Trinity, and the author of the earliest known autobiography in English.

Katharina M. Wilson
Joan of Arc

The courageous and controversial teenager who saved her country

The Editors
Women in the Medieval Church: The Christian History Timeline

Thomas O. Kay
Heloise and Abelard's Tumultuous Affair

She became an acclaimed abbess; he was one of the greatest philosophers of the medieval world. Yet their fabled love deeply damaged them both.

Ruth A. Tucker
The Mystics

Why did mysticism flower in the medieval world—and why did women often lead in it?

Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff
Voices of the Mystics
Writings from Women in the Medieval Church

Brief selections from four key books
Women in the Medieval Church: Recommended Resources
The Faith Behind the Famous: Isaac Newton

He has been called "the greatest scientific genius the world has known." Yet he spent less time on science than on theology.

Charles E. Hummel
Newton's Views on Science and Faith

Charles E. Hummel
Significant Events in the Life of Isaac Newton

Charles E. Hummel
Readers Respond to the 100 Events Issue

Which events should have been listed? Here's what you said.

Kevin A. Miller

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