Gender trouble in paradise: The problem of the liturgical virgo
Felice Lifshitz
All of the venerated female heroines Christian history are ghettoized into a single category and designated by label placed at end list holy names: virgines (singular, virgo). The ninth-century litanies which did not adhere to systematically gendered ganization described in this chapter could presumably tell us much about sites modes resistance segregationist gender ideologies that were being propagated through Carolingian ecclesiastical officialdom. only provided for celebration memory women was liturgical virgo, is, martyr another, obfuscatory name. invention above all reception virgo around 800 after must be connected with certain aspects reform movement. certainly powerful ideological tool, came dominate thinking sanctity.Keywords: carolingian movement; sanctity; trouble; tool; virgo;
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