Elizabeth Petroff

Question 1

Women developed their spirituality in…

Answer 1

An intense community of women

Question 2

The Christian virtues for women were…

Answer 2

Patience, submissiveness, chastity, strenuous piety, self-effacement

Question 3

Women saints transcended…

Answer 3

Cultural limitations

Question 4

Biographies of female saints suggest their paths to visionary selfhood began with…

Answer 4

Total internalisation of the cultural stereotype of the good women, by accepting and embracing the limitations of female behaviour

Question 5

Visions were the necessary credentials for…

Answer 5

A medieval woman whose abilities and strengths demanded that she take an active role in a larger world

Question 6

7 stages of the visions of female saints:

Answer 6

1: purgative
2: psychic
3: doctrinal
4: devotional
5: participatory
6: unitive
7: ordering

Question 7

The Acta Sanctorum documented…

Answer 7

Biographies of the lives of female saints

Question 8

Margaret of Cortona…

Answer 8

• went to the Franciscan church in Cortona in 1272 barefoot with a rope around her neck asking to join the order as a penitent
• was accepted as a tertiary
• she became a saint and her cult was especially important to women