Women Religious Virtuosae from the Middle Ages

A Case Pattern and Analytic Model of Types

Bibliographic Data

ID2591497
AuthorsBarbara R Walters (City University of New York, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume63
Issue1
Pages69
Publication date2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology of Religion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1069-4404 • E-ISSN: 1759-8818
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3712540
OpenAlexW2067938628
LanguageEN
References cited15

Five women religious exemplars representative of the variation in religious expression within and outside the fold of the thirteenth-century ecclesia were selected for analysis. Narratives were constructed for each case. Each narrative focuses on the distinctive features judged significant in the constitution of a case pattern or prototype. From these an array of analytic concepts was selected and applied to each exemplar. The methodological approach enables preservation of the empirical character and historical setting of each religious virtuoso yet provides for the selection of abstract distinctive features present or absent in each exemplar or ideal type. The analysis demonstrates that for the virtuosae, classic Weberian categories are neither mutually exclusive nor exhaustive. Different exemplars express different orientations at different times and in different places. And the analytic elements recombine empirically to produce a wider variety in typology than envisioned by Weber

Ancient history · Middle Ages · Sociology · Demography · History · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Medieval Literature and History · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

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