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Discerning Voices of Late-Medieval Women: Women and Religious Song in the Pre-Reformational Period
Hermina Joldersma
Calvin College
March 2006

This lecture was sponsored by the Calvin College Gender Studies Minor, and is used here by permission of the author.

Abstract

Surprisingly, popular religious songs before the Reformation were often composed by women. However, given the nature of the genre, discerning their voices is a daunting task. This lecture sketches the sources and problems posed by these songs and discusses ways in which they reveal insights into the lives of late-medieval women.

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Hermina Joldersma is a professor in the Department of Germanic, Slavic, and East Asian Studies at the University of Calgary. A former professor of Dutch at Calvin College, Professor Joldersma served a 3-year term as President's Advisor on Women's Issues at Calgary.