The embodied Word female spiritualities, contested orthodoxies, and English religious cultures, 1350-1700 /

"In The Embodied Word, Nancy Bradley Warren expands on the topic of female spirituality, first explored in her book Women of God and Arms, to encompass broad issues of religion, gender, and historical periodization. Through her analyses of the variety of ways in which medieval spirituality was...

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Main Author: Warren, Nancy Bradley
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010.
Series:Reformations.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : from corpse to corpus
  • The incarnational and the international : St. Birgitta of Sweden, St. Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, and Aemilia Lanyer
  • Medieval legacies and female spiritualities across the "great divide" : Julian of Norwich, Grace Mildmay, and the English Benedictine nuns of Cambrai and Paris
  • Embodying the "old religion" and transforming the body politic : the Brigittine nuns of Syon, Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza, and exiled women religious during the English Civil War
  • Women's life writing, women's bodies, and the gendered politics of faith : Margery Kempe, Anna Trapnel, and Elizabeth Cary
  • The embodied presence of the past : medieval history, female spirituality, and traumatic textuality, 1570-1700.