Gender, Catholicism and spirituality : women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe, 1200-1900 /
"This timely collection of essays, from an international team of authors, spans a wide geographical and chronological spectrum and focuses on female relationships with piety and religious vocations. Ideal for students, each chapter introduces new research and offers a guide to historiographical...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
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| Series: | Gender and history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Gender, Catholicism and women's spirituality over the longue durée / Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Carmen M. Mangion
- Presence and absence: reading Clare of Assisi in Franciscan liturgy and community / Anna Welch
- Marguerite Porete and the predicament of her preaching in fourteenth-century France / Rina Lahav
- Impact of Renaissance gender-related notions on the female experience of the sacred: the case of Angela Merici's Ursulines / Querciolo Mazzonis
- Teresa de Jesús's Book and the reform of the religious man in sixteenth-century Spain / Elizabeth Rhodes
- Mary Ward's English Institute and prescribed female roles in the early modern church / Laurence Lux-Sterritt
- English nun's authority: early modern spiritual controversy and the manuscripts of Barbara Constable / Jenna Lay
- Power in piety: inspiration, ambitions and strategies of spiritual virgins in the northern Netherlands during the seventeenth century / Marit Monteiro
- 'Martyrs of England! Standing on High!': Roman Catholic women's hymn-writing for the re-invigoration of the faith in England, 1850-1903 / Nancy Jiwon Cho
- Expressions of self-surrender in nineteenth-century France: the case of Thérèse Couderc (1805-1885) / Kate Stogdon
- 'Mixed life': challenging understandings of religious life in Victorian England / Carmen M. Mangion
- Afterword / Frances E. Dolan.