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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Other Authors: Lux-Sterritt, Laurence, Mangion, Carmen M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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.