The Pastoral Care of Women in Late Medieval England (Gender in the Middle Ages) (Volume 3)

The question of how priests were taught to think about and care for female parishioners is the topic of this book.

As neither misogynist villains nor saintly heroes, clerical authors of pastoral vernacular literature persisted both in their characterization of women as difficult parishioners and in their attempts to recognize women as ordinary parishioners who deserved ordinary pastoral care.