Introduction Part I: Household, Women, and Lived Christianity
Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker|Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
From its earliest beginnings in the homes of members, church has been ‘house’ God, and episcopal monastic institutions which many God’s professed servants officials dwell have seen as religious ‘houses’. The church’s history is accordingly an institution largely conceived a household. In recent years, secular life lifestyles late antiquity Middle Ages illuminated through renewed attention to economic social households, while scholarship on women produced studies lives devotional reading laywomen religious. This volume pioneering collection that unites study household with women’s practices focus enquiry. It moves beyond consideration roles impact householding church.
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