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Article: Patterns of Piety: Women, Gender and Religion In Late Medieval and Reformation England
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- Anglican and Episcopal History
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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CHRISTINE PETERS. Patterns of Piety: Women, Gender and Religion In Late Medieval and Reformation England. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xv + 389, appendix, bibliography, index. $65.00.
In this study, Christine Peters, lecturer in history at Queen's College, Oxford, focuses on a question central to the assessment of the English Reformation: what was the impact of religious reform on women and on gender relations? Historians generally weigh this question in a relatively simple manner: what did women lose and what did women gain? And they answer that the losses included the veneration of Mary and the female saints as objects of devotion and as role models; women's ...