A Pernicious Sort of Woman Fred Spooner Impostures follows the roguish Abu

Impostures follows the roguish Abu Zayd al-Saruji in his adventures around the medieval Middle East-we encounter him impersonating a preacher

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In Prologue to a Farce

A Pernicious Sort of Woman Fred Spooner Impostures follows the roguish AbuWhether they were secular canonesses or beguines, tertiaries or Sisters of the Common Life, quasi religious women in the later Middle Ages lived their lives against a backdrop of struggle and insecurity resulting, in large measure, from their ambivalent legal status. Because they lacked one or more of the canonical earmarks of religious women strictly speaking, they had to justify their unauthorized way of life and to defend themselves against