Siblings and the sexes within the medieval religious life (1).(Essay)

From: Church History | Date: March 1, 2008| Author: Griffiths, Fiona J. | Copyright information

IN 1156, the German visionary Elisabeth of Schonau received a series of revelations concerning Saint Ursula, whose body, together with some of the eleven thousand virgins supposedly martyred alongside her, had allegedly been discovered in a cemetery just outside the city walls of Cologne. Elisabeth's revelations, which were prompted by the arrival at Schonau of two bodies from Cologne (one male and one female), resulted in one of her most controversial and certainly most popular wo...

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