Women Religious Virtuosae from the Middle Ages: A Case Pattern and Analytic Model of Types
Barbara R. Walters
Five women religious exemplars representative of the variation in expression within and outside fold thirteenth-century ecclesia were selected for analysis. Narratives constructed each case. Each narrative focuses on distinctive features judged significant constitution a case pattern or prototype. From these an array analytic concepts was applied to exemplar. The methodological approach enables preservation empirical character historical setting virtuoso yet provides selection abstract present absent exemplar ideal type. analysis demonstrates that virtuosae, classic Weberian categories are neither mutually exclusive nor exhaustive. Different express different orientations at times places. And elements recombine empirically produce wider variety typology than envisioned by Weber
Sociology of Religion