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The myth of Jewish male menses

November 25, 2012 By Medievalists.net

15th century depiction of Jewish men

Several scholars have asserted that medieval Christians believed that Jewish men menstruated. Their arguments, made in support of a grander claim that Jews as a collectivity were gendered feminine in Christian thought, rest on numerous misreadings.

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Blood and body : women’s religious practices in late medieval Europe

September 10, 2011 By Medievalists.net

Gertrude the Great

Blood and body : women’s religious practices in late medieval Europe Tudesko, Jenny L. Thesis: M.A., History, California State University, Sacramento (2009) Abstract Religious women in thirteenth and fourteenth-century Western Europe developed forms of pious practice that were unique in their extreme devotions to the blood and body of Christ and unique in their use […]

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