04354nam a2200625Ka 4500 ocn820011301 OCoLC 20200709055635.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 121203s2005 dcu ob 001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9780813216225 (electronic bk.) 0813216222 (electronic bk.) 0813213924 9780813213927 (OCoLC)820011301 500861 (N$T) e------ BX4212 .M12 2005eb REL 008000 bisacsh 262.9/2 22 11.52 bcl N$TA Makowski, Elizabeth M., 1951- A pernicious sort of woman [electronic resource] : quasi-religious women and canon lawyers in the later Middle Ages / Elizabeth Makowski. 1st ed. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2005. 1 online resource (xxxiii, 170 p.) Studies in medieval and early modern canon law ; v. 6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-160) and index. Academic commentary : lawyers interpret the law -- Consilia, and decisiones : practical application of legal theory -- Assessment and reassessment. "Whether they were secular canonesses or beguines, tertiaries, or Sisters of the Common Life, quasi-religious women in the later Middle Ages lived their lives against a backdrop of struggle and insecurity resulting in large measure, from their ambivalent legal status. Because they lacked one or more of the canonical earmarks of religious women strictly speaking, they had to justify their unauthorized way of life and to defend themselves against association with those who had been branded unorthodox, unruly, or even heretical. Ambiguous legal status within the organized Church and the contests to which it gave rise are a constant theme in the historiography of quasi-religious women, yet there has been no full-scale study of what it meant at law to be a mulier religiosa." "This book provides a thorough examination of the writings of canon lawyers in the later Middle Ages as they come to terms, both in their academic work and also in their roles as judges and advisers, with women who were not, strictly speaking, religious, but who were popularly thought of as such. It studies the ways in which jurists strove to categorize these women and to clarify the sometimes ambivalent canons relating to their lives in the community. It assesses, among other things, the extent to which lawyers proved responsive to popular as well as learned notions of what constituted religious life for women when the interests of particular clients were at stake." "A useful supplement to books devoted to individual quasi-religious women or to specific manifestations of female lay piety, "A Pernicious Sort of Woman" will be of interest to historians of Christianity and specialists in the law and women's studies as well as anyone interested in the history of religious women."--Jacket. Description based on print version record. Monasticism and religious orders for women (Canon law) History To 1500. Third orders History To 1500. Religieuze orden. gtt Begijnen. gtt Vrouwen. gtt Kerkrecht. gtt Derde orden. gtt Kanonisches Recht. swd Frau. swd Religiöses Leben. swd RELIGION / Christian Church / Canon & Ecclesiastical Law bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Makowski, Elizabeth M., 1951- Pernicious sort of woman. 1st ed. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2005 0813213924 (DLC) 2004001570 (OCoLC)54776061 Studies in medieval and early modern canon law ; v. 6. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=500861 Table of contents http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/383065577.pdf Kostenfrei ebrary http://site.ebrary.com/id/10267264 EBSCOhost EBSC 500861 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 51925 51925