Mary M. Schaefer examines the ninth-century church Santa Prassede and its foundation myth, as well as an ideal of balanced male-female relationships and women holding pastoral office in the church of Rome.
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Mary M. Schaefer offers a groundbreaking examination of the church of Santa Prassede in Rome. Rebuilt by Pope Paschal I in the early ninth century, the church was named in honor of Saint Praxedes, identified by some seventeenth-and eighteenth-century sources as presbytera or fem…
Mary M. Schaefer examines the ninth-century church Santa Prassede and its foundation myth, as well as an ideal of balanced male-female relationships and women holding pastoral office in the church of Rome.
Mary M. Schaefer offers a groundbreaking examination of the church of Santa Prassede in Rome. Rebuilt by Pope Paschal I in the early ninth century, the church was named in honor of Saint Praxedes, identified by some seventeenth-and eighteenth-century sources as presbytera or fem…