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The following outline suggests a plan for studying the visibility and participation of women in the medieval liturgy. The documents that I actually prepare may or may not correspond exactly to this outline, however.
- Women in communities of men and in mixed communities
- Oblation of male children by mothers
- Women’s presence in clerical / male monastic spaces
- Women in the choir
- Women in clerical and monastic processions
- Death bed admission and clothing
- Pensioners, visitors and guests
- Men in communities of women
- Lay brothers, clergy
- pensioners, visitors, guests
Women and the Ministry of Men
- Blessing for wives in the ordination liturgies for deacons and presyters
- Mary Magdalene and the ordination of an exorcist; the consecration of bishops
- Popessas and the liturgy of installation of a pope
- Role of women in the rite of reception of prelates
- Presentation of clergy by women
- Liturgy and the Legal System
- Legal relevance of marriage and oblation
- Banns, clamors, maledictions, excommunications
- Sanctuary, manumission
- Mass against an unjust judge
- Judgments of God (ordeals)
- Biblical women in liturgical prayers: Susanna, Tecla
- Canonization of women saints
Blessings
- Of a granary
- Of a new soldier and his sword: Judith
- Of women pilgrims; bequests for pilgrimages
- Of women crusaders