Gender and Authority in the Late Medieval Church: A New History

How did the governance of the medieval institutional church remain exclusively male, despite plentiful evidence of women being as capable and devout as men? Forrest tells an integrated history that explains how both the exclusion of women and the inclusion of men underpins a rigidly gendered system of religious governance.

• | Author: Ian Forrest
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 15, 2025
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781501781995
• | ISBN-10: 1501781995