TY - BOOK AU - Gary Macy TI - The Hidden History of Women's Ordination : Female Clergy in the Medieval West SN - 9780195189704 PY - 2008/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Women Ordination KW - Ordination of women -- Europe -- History -- To 1500. Ordination -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500. RELIGION -- Christian Church -- Leadership. RELIGION -- Leadership. Ordination of women. Europe. Kerkelijke ambten. Vrouwen. Frau Weihe Europ N2 - "In the early centuries of Christianity, ordination was the process and the ceremony by which one moved to any new ministry (ordo) in the community. By this definition, women were in fact ordained into several ministries. A radical change in the definit ER -