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Women religious virtuosae from the middle ages: a case pattern and analytic model of types.

From: Sociology of Religion  |  Date: 3/22/2002  |  Author: Walters, Barbara R.

Five women religious exemplars representative of the variation in religious expression within and outside the fold of die thirteenth-century ecclesia were selected for analysis. Narratives were constructed for each case. Each narrative focuses on the distinctive features judged significant in die constitution of a case pattern or prototype. From these an array of analytic concepts was selected and applied to each exemplar. The methodological approach enables preservation of the empirical ...

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