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Women and Worship in the Middle Ages |
Liturgy was a significant part of the life experience of medieval women and one of the factors that shaped their identity as individuals and as members of church and society. The lives of medieval women reflected and were shaped by the daily, weekly, seasonal and annual round of liturgical rites. Worship marked birth, marriage or entrance into religious life, sickness and death. I am trying to describe and reflect on the many different ways women participated in or were visible in the many diverse liturgical celebrations of the medieval church (as well as ways in which their participation was restricted). How did their participation vary with place, time and social location? How did it vary from one liturgy to another?
Presentations at North American Academy of Liturgy
and International Congress of Medieval Studies
- The Women Who Anointed Jesus in Medieval Liturgical Texts
- Choice of Women's Stories for Gospel Readings on the Thursdays of Lent in Medieval Lectionaries
- Feminization of Worship Space in Late Medieval Churches
- Bequests by Women of Personal and Domestic Property for Liturgical Use
- Women in the Prayer Libera Domine of the Rite of Commendation of the Dying
Previous Publications
- Inclusive Language in Latin Liturgical Texts
National Bulletin on Liturgy, vol. 25, no. 129 (Summer 1992) 110-112 - Liturgy and Winter
National Bulletin on Liturgy, vol. 25, no. 131 (Winter 1992) 241-244 - Saints' Names from the Hebrew Scriptures
National Bulletin on Liturgy, vol. 26, no. 132 (Spring 1993) 51-53 - Antiphons at the Washing of Feet
National Bulletin on Liturgy, vol. 25, no. 132 (Spring 1993) 56-58 - Familiar Prayers in Medieval English
National Bulletin on Liturgy, vol. 26, no. 133 (Summer 1993) 98-105 - Why Sing the Liturgy?
National Bulletin on Liturgy, vol. 27, no. 134 (Fall 1993) 169-174 - Visitation of the Dying in the Fifteenth Century
National Bulletin on Liturgy, vol. 27, no. 134 (Fall 1993) 191-192 - Washing the Feet of the Poor
National Bulletin on Liturgy, vol. 28, no. 140 (Spring 1995) 61-62 - Where Have All the Marys Gone?
National Bulletin on Liturgy, vol. 28, no. 141 (Summer 1995) 122-126
Related Sites
- Women in the Middle Ages
http://www.usm.maine.edu/~flc/emily.htm - Medieval Women
http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/ - Medieval Feminist Index
http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html - Medieval Feminist Forum Bibliography
http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/smfs/MFF%20Spring%202001.html - Sibyls
www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~mmedia/mw2.htm - Internet Medieval Sourcebook
www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook3.html - Medieval Women and Music
www.vanderbilt.edu/~cyrus/ORB/orbwomen.htm - Medieval Women
http://www.netserf.org/Women/ - Medieval Woman Resources
http://www.bethamy.com/medieval.html - WATER
http://www.hers.com/water - Medieval Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html - Monastic Matrix
http://monasticmatrix.org - Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html