Eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven : women, sexuality and the Catholic Church /

• Ranke-Heinemann, Uta, 1927-
• Ranke-Heinemann, Uta, 1927-

• Catholic Church
• Roman Catholic Church -- History.

• Penguin,

• 0140143890

• Originally published in German: Hamburg: Hoffman & Campe, 1988 - This ed. originally published as "Eunuchs for heaven", Deutsch, 1990.
• Translation of 'Eunuchen für das Himmelreich'.

• Women men and eunuchs gender in Byzantium
• Peter Abelard
• Abelard and Heloise
• cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in late medieval England
• Homosexuality in Renaissance England
• Queering the Middle Ages
• Spiritual marriage sexual abstinence in medieval wedlock
• Same sex love and desire among women in the Middle Ages
• John Dudley Duke of Northumberland 1504 1553
• Only halfway to paradise women in postwar Britain 1945 1968
• St George hero martyr and myth
• Interpreting cultural symbols Saint Anne in late medieval society
• Medieval mothering
• Medieval virginities
• kings two bodies a study in mediaeval political theology
• Studying medieval women sex gender feminism
• Desire and discipline sex and sexuality in the premodern West
• framework of Anglo Saxon history to AD 900
• Virgin martyrs legends of sainthood in late medieval England
• Constructing medieval sexuality
• age of ambition English society in the late Middle Ages
• Peace print and Protestantism 1450 1558
• Between men English literature and male homosocial desire
• Stuart age a history of England 1603 1714
• Christianity social tolerance and homosexuality gay people in Western Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to the fourteenth century
• Gentile tales the narrative assault on Late Medieval Jews
• British Conservatism 1832 1914
• empress Matilda queen consort queen mother and lady of the English
• Sacred biography Saints and their biographers in the Middle Ages
• Learning and literacy in medieval England and abroad
• Vested interests cross dressing & cultural anxiety
• 1066 and all that a memorable history of England comprising all the parts you can remember including 103 good things 5 bad kings and 2 genuine dates
• Framing medieval bodies
• Becoming male in the Middle Ages
• Gender and holiness men women and saints in late medieval Europe
• rise and fall of merry England the ritual year 1400 1700
• Early medieval kingship
• Richard II and the revolution of 1399
• Gender and society in Renaissance Italy
• Art and society in Italy 1350 1500
• Power and protest in England 1525 1640
• Third sex third gender beyond sexual dimorphism in culture and history
• Sexual practices & the medieval church
• cult of kingship in Anglo Saxon England the transition from paganism to Christianity
• cult of the saints its rise and function in Latin Christianity
• question of leadership Gladstone to Thatcher
• religious orders in pre Reformation England
• Women and power in the Middle Ages
• Witchcraft magic and culture 1736 1951
• world of Bede
• world of Orderic Vitalis
• Sexual variance in society and history
• Masculinity in medieval Europe
• Sexuality in Medieval Europe doing unto others
• Meanings of sex difference in the Middle Ages medicine science and culture
• body and society men women and sexual renunciation in early Christianity
• origins of Anglo Saxon kingdoms
• Of good and ill repute gender and social control in medieval England
• Three studies in medieval religious and social thought the interpretation of Mary and Martha the ideal of the imitation of Christ the orders of society
• Angelic monks and earthly men monasticism and its meaning to medieval society
• three orders feudal society imagined
• Woman defamed and woman defended an anthology of Medieval texts
• From Alfred to Henry III 871 1272
• William the Conqueror
• Women work and life cycle in a Medieval economy women in York and Yorkshire c 1300 1520
• Queens concubines and dowagers the Kings wife in the early middle ages
• English parish clergy on the eve of the Reformation
• Simone de Beauvoir a critical reader
• Saints & society the two worlds of western Christendom 1000 1700
• Sainthood in the later Middle Ages
• From boys to men formations of masculinity in late medieval Europe
• Lancastrians and Yorkists the Wars of the Roses
• Law sex and Christian society in medieval Europe
• Holiness and masculinity in the Middle Ages
• Nineteenth century Ireland the search for stability
• Bastard feudalism
• interrogation of Joan of Arc
• Cambridge companion to Hobbes
• Russian Revolution
• Medieval women
• Early medieval history
• Joan of Arc and Richard III sex saints and government in the Middle Ages
• Kings and Lords in conquest England
• Family and household in medieval England
• Reign of Cnut King of England Denmark and Norway
• Religion and the rise of Labour nonconformity and the Independent Labour movement in Lancashire and the West Riding 1880 1914
• Napoleon III
• Fresh verdicts on Joan of Arc
• Piers Gaveston Edward IIs adoptive brother
• Henry VI Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses a sourcebook
• Church courts sex and marriage in England 1570 1640
• Wessex in the early Middle Ages
• mid Tudor crisis 1539 1563
• Medieval masculinities regarding men in the Middle Ages
• earliest English kings
• Poverty and vagrancy in Tudor England
• Gendering the crusades
• age of the Vikings
• Schism heresy and religious protest papers read at the tenth summer meeting and the eleventh winter meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society
• Anonimalle Chronicle 1307 to 1334 from Brotherton Collection MS 29