There are two excellent books out that cover this topic (at least):
_Sanctity and Motherhood: Essays on Holy Mothers in the Middle Ages_.
Anneke Mulder-Bakker, Ed. New York: Garland Press 1995
and
_Saints and Society: The Two Worlds of Western Christendom 1000 - 1700_.
Donald Weinstein and Rudolph M. Bell. Chicago and London: U of Chicago
Press. 1982.
Kendra
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