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This interdisciplinary collection addresses the location of women and their bequests within the single most important public and social space in pre-Reformation Europe: the Roman Catholic Church. This innovative focus brings attention to gender and space as experienced in the medieval parish as well as in monastic and cathedral space. Through provocative handling of historical content and theory, the contributors explore strategies of exclusion and of inclusion and note patterns of later writers who neglect or rewrite records of female presence.Raguin, Virginia Chieffo is the author of 'Women's Space Patronage, Place, And Gender In The Medieval Church', published 2005 under ISBN 9780791463659 and ISBN 0791463656.
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