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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/187124108X316468 Church History and Religious Culture 88 (2008) 65-108 www.brill.nl/chrc CHRC Book Reviews A nneke B. M ulder -B akker and J ocelyn W ogan -B rowne (E ds .), Household, Women, and Christianities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages [Medieval women: texts and contexts 14]. Brepols, Turnhout 2005, 260 pp. ISBN 2-503-51778-1. Th is volume has an illustrious history. At the outset the editors acknowledge their debt to the Scandinavian scholar Kari Borreson, to whom they dedicate this collection of articles. She is a pioneer of women’s history, particularly with respect to their contribu- tion and role in Christianity in the pre-modern era. In the 1990s, Borreson organized a series of conferences on Women in the Christian Tradition from Late Antiquity to the Reformation, funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF). As Anneke Mulder-Bakker and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne assert, these conferences were excellent venues for discussion among senior and junior specialists in the then new field of gen- der and religion in the pre-modern era. I can vouch for that, as I was one of the junior scholars who were fortunate enough to be invited at the time. No official
Church History and Religious Culture (formerly Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis) – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2008
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