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Women religious virtuosae from the middle ages: a case pattern and analytic model of types

Sociology of Religion, Spring, 2002 by Barbara R. Walters

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In summary, the combination of a case-pattern and analytic model applied to women religious virruosae enables examination of both abstract distinctive features and specific constellations as they occurred in real historical time. The model demonstrates that the central Weberian categories were not mutually exclusive but rather criss-crossed in interesting ways.

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Removed from the straightjacket of the "ideal type)" the analytic elements recombine to produce a wider variety in typology than envisioned by their author. The resulting flexibility enables a vista of the real choices for real people within the broad framework of the medieval ecclesia. This preliminary analysis therefore opens a new research strategy with real explanatory power through which to approach and understand meaningful human actions embedded in a distant historical time and social space.

Women religious virtuosae from the middle ages: a case pattern and analytic model of types

Sociology of Religion, Spring, 2002 by Barbara R. Walters

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