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

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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.