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On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500 (The New Middle Ages)

Name: On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500 (The New Middle Ages)
Author: P. Rieder
ISBN: 9781403969699

P. Rieder

268 pages

Palgrave Macmillan

Jun 2011

Hardcover

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This book is a social history of the ritual and custom of churching, a liturgical rite of purification after childbirth performed on a woman's first visit to church after giving birth. The book describes the development of the rite from its original meaning as a response to blood pollution to its redefinition as a rite that honoured marriage.