Patricia Ranft Books
Women and the religious life in premodern Europe
In her Women and the Religious Life in Premodern Europe, Patricia Ranft synthesizes the most recent research on women religious in chronological order and places these women in the center of the na...
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Women and spiritual equality in Christian tradition
Women and Spiritual Equality in Christian Tradition challenges the common assumption in contemporary discourse that Christianity is exclusively misogynist by documenting the presence of a long, str...
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A Woman's Way: The Forgotten History of Women Spiritual Directors
"This book delineates the history of spiritual direction for women and by women within the larger context of the history of Christian spirituality and its understanding of human perfectibility. In...
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Women in Western Intellectual Culture 600 1500
"Western intellectual tradition has long been viewed as an exclusive male bastion, but Women in Western Intellectual Culture, 600-1500 proves that this thesis is no longer tenable. By identifying a...
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