Patterns of Piety: Women, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation England

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Patterns of Piety: Women, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation England. By Christine Peters. [Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp.xvi, 389. $65.00.)

Christine Peters explains that her research for this book began with the question of the impact of the Reformation on women. Historians have recently tended to agree that women both lost and gained by it. The disappearance of the cults of female saints, above all the Virgin Mary, and the end of monastic life, were offset by the promotion of an ideal of godly marriage ...

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