On the Purification of Women
Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500| By: | P. Rieder |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781349735327 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137050144 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2006 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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This book is a social history of the ritual and custom of churching, a liturgical rite of purification after childbirth performed on a woman's first visit to church after giving birth. The book describes the development of the rite from its original meaning as a response to blood pollution to its redefinition as a rite that honoured marriage.