Women and Christianity -3 Vol.Set

includes index and biblioraphy

Vol.1:-The First Thousand Years PART ONE: NEW TESTAMENT TIMES (FIRST CENTURY) Chapter 1: Reading Women into History 17 Chapter 2: The Women Disciples 43 Chapter 3: Early Christian Women 64 Chapter 4: Women in Apocryphal and Gnostic Literature 86 PART TWO: APPROACHING THE `GOLDEN AGE` (SECOND TO FIFTH CENTURIES) Chapter 5: Women Martyrs 102 Chapter 6: Deaconesses, Widows, and Virgins 117 Chapter 7: The Life of Virginity 144 PART THREE: INTO THE DARK AGES (SIXTH TO TENTH CENTURIES) Chapter 8: The Abbesses 172 Chapter 9: Women as Monastic Missionaries 198 Chapter 10: The Point of the Story: Joan and Hroswitha 227 Vol.2:-From 1000 to the Reformation 1: Entering the Second Millennium:Issues and Ideas 19 2: Women in the Gregorian Reform:Marriage and Celibacy 45 3: The World of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine 68 4: Three Twelfth Century Visionaries: Christina of Markyate,Hildegard of Bingen, Elizabeth of Schonau 94 5: Beguine Spirituality 124 6: Two Remarkable Convents: Helfta and Assisi 150 7: Women Challenging Church:Marguerite Porete and Catherine of Siena 174 8: Women on the Edge: Heresy and Prostitution 203 9: Recluses and Pilgrims:Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe 226 10: Two Models: The Virgin Mary and Mary of Magdala 254 Vol.3:-From the Reformation to the 21st Century 1: Continuity and Change 11 2: Women and the Reformation 35 3: Teresa of Avila and Catholic Reform 63 4: New Women`s Communities: Education and Health 89 5: Women Missionaries to the New World 126 6: Protestant Women: Philosophers, Missionaries and Mystics 152 7: The Marian Age 180 8: The Feminist Challenge 206 9: Seeking a Spirituality for Women 237 10: Towards an Inclusive Global Ethic 268

V1. First Thousand Years.-- V2. From 1000 to the Reformation.-- V3. From the Reformation to the 21st Century.