Women during the English Reformations : renegotiating gender and religious identity /
This collection of scholarly essays examines the effects of reforms in religion on the gender and religious identity of women during the English reformations from Henry VIII's earliest iterations in the 1530s to filmic representations of reforming women in the last two centuries. As a whole, th...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Julie A. Chappell
- "To the illustrious queen": Katherine of Aragon and early modern book dedications / Valerie Schutte
- "Rather a strong and constant man" : Margaret Pole and the problem of women's independence / Janice Liedl
- Religious intent and the art of courteous pleasantry: a few letters from Englishwomen to Heinrich Bullinger (1543-1562) / Rebecca A. Giselbrecht
- Elizabeth Cary and intersections of Catholicism and gender in early modern England / Lisa McClain
- Eleanor Davies and the new Jerusalem / Amanda L. Capern
- The failure of godly womanhood: religious and gender identity in the life of Lady Elizabeth Delaval / Sharon L. Arnoult
- Haunting history: women, Catholicism, and the writing of national history in Sophia Lee's The recess / Kaley A. Kramer
- Stripped of their altars: film, faith, and Tudor royal women from the silent era to the twenty-first century, 1895-2014 / William B. Robison.