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CONTENTS 6 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 10 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 11 INTRODUCTION: “Be it husband, be it wife” 12 Pastoral Care 14 The Pastoral Care of Women 23 Gendered Lessons 29 1. Pastoral Vernacular Literature 32 Clerical Education 33 Pastoral Vernacular Literature 39 Sources: Sermons, Exempla, and John Mirk 41 2. Pastoral Language 47 Words that Matter: The Significance of “Good Men and Women” 50 Gendered Language 54 John Mirk’s Festial: A Case Study 58 3. Pastoral Perceptions 73 “Not of their own power” 76 “Sirens” 83 Eve, Mary, and Agnes le Roo 89 4. Pastoral Care 105 The Ordinary Care of Female Parishioners 107 The Extraordinary Problems of Female Parishioners 111 CONCLUSION: GENDERED LESSONS 132 APPENDIX I: THE MAJOR MANUSCRIPTS OF MIRK’S FESTIAL 136 APPENDIX II: THE EXEMPLA OF MIRK’S FESTIAL 146 BIBLIOGRAPHY 162 Index 174

Author

Barr, Beth Allison.

Published

2008

Language

EN