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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the anchoress, who is probably the earliest named woman writer in English, and her celebrated work on her visions of the suffering of Christ. We use cookies to give you ...

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In "Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry," Barr, a Medieval historian and professor at Baylor University, unpacks the contemporary expectations of ...

Beth Allison Barr investigates the role of women as pastor's wives in evangelical churches. She uses historical research to understand expectations of women, ministry and pastors' wives.

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Medieval women have long fascinated me, particularly artistic medieval women whose work seems to push against the limits of their era and, as a result, show the places they write about in a ...