What accounts for the increase in the number of female saints in the High Middle Ages?
A) the great number of women who died as martyrs
B) the involvement of women in missionary work
C) the discrediting of the story that linked Eve to sin
D) the association of sainthood with nurturing qualities
D
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a. Arabs b. Seljuk Turks c. Ottoman Turks d. Austrians e. Persians
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