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On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500 (New Middle Ages)
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Publication Date: June 16th, 2011
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
9781403969699
Pages:
257
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Description
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.
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