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Sheltering The Homeless: Hospitals In Medieval Catalonia, James W. Brodman

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Shelter for the temporarily homeless, whether or not they were needy in the modern sense, was as typical a charity in the tons and villages of medieval Europe as was providing food for the hungry. The Rule of St Benedict, as well as local Hispanic customs, imposed the obligation of hospitality upon monasteries, and likewise the growing towns of the eleventh and twelfth centuries saw the need to provide beds for those who were not householders. Those served were a diverse lot: pilgrims wending their way to shrine like Santiago, clergy and others in town on business, wandering beggars and …

The Myth Of The Persecuted Female Healer, Jane P. Davidson

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The idea that most women condemned as witches during the classic periods of witch persecution in Europe (between 1500 and 1700) were in actuality unlicensed healers who were suppressed by the male medical establishment arose among feminist writers, historians, and religious leaders. This idea has been around for more than twenty years now and has become a familiar strain in women's studies. It has been presented often as historically valid by scholars of both genders. The theory is that the midwife, the 'cunning woman', and the female folk herbalist were condemned as witches by male physicians in order to keep …

Review Essay: Poly, Jean-Pierre, And Eric Bournazel. The Feudal Transformation, 900-1200, Francis X. Hartigan

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Poly, Jean-Pierre, and Eric Bournazel. The Feudal Transformation, 900-1200. Trans Caroline Higgitt. Holmes and Meier, New York 1991. 404 pp. $42.95.

Review Essay: Cholakian, Patricia Francis. Rape And Writing In The Heptameron Of Marguerite De Navarre, Caroline Mcalister

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Cholakian, Patricia Francis. Rape and Writing in The Heptameron of Marguerite de Navarre. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale 1991. xiv + 301 pp. $34.95.

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Review Essay: Ashley, Kathleen, And Pamela Sheingorn, Edd. Interpreting Cultural Symbols: Saint Anne In Late Medieval Society, Susan Stakel

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Ashley, Kathleen, and Pamela Sheingorn, edd. Interpreting Cultural Symbols: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Society. University of Georgia Press, Athens 1990. 243 pp. $30.00 / $15.00.

Blumenfeld-Kozinski, Renate, ed. Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. 1991. 315 pp. $41.50 / $15.95.

Review Essay: Moore, R. I. The Formation Of A Persecuting Society, Donald Sullivan

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Moore, R. I. The Formation of a Persecuting Society. Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1990. viii + 168 pp. $42.95 / $21.95.