Overview

Devout laywomen raise a number of provocative questions about gender and religion in the early modern world. How did some groups or individuals evade the Tridentine legislation that required third order women to take solemn vows and observe active and passive enclosure? How did their attempts to exercise a female apostolate (albeit with varying degrees of success and assertiveness) destabilize hierarchies of class and gender? To the extent that their beliefs and practices diverged from approved doctrine and rituals, what insights can they provide into the tensions between official religion and lay religiosity? Addressing these and many other questions, Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World reflects new directions in gender history, offering a more nuanced approach to the paradigm of woman as the prototypical ""disciplined"" subject of church-state power.

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Author:   Alison Weber ,  Professor Allyson M. Poska ,  Professor Abby Zanger
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.880kg
ISBN:  

9781472424914

ISBN 10:   1472424913
Pages:   390
Publication Date:   18 March 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"List of Illustrations Contributors A Note on Texts and Translations Introduction Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern Catholic World: The Historiographic Challenge Alison Weber PART I Service 1 Community, Conflict, and Local Authority: The Basque Seroras Amanda Scott 2 The Company of St. Ursula in Italy in Counter-Reformation Italy Querciolo Mazzonis 3 Nursing as a Vocation or a Profession? Women’s Status and the Meaning of Healing in Early Modern France and England Susan Dinan Part II Perceptions of Holiness 4 Historicizing the Beatas: The Figures behind Reformation and Counter-Reformation Conflicts María Laura Giordano 5 Ecco la santa! Printed Italian Biographies of Devout Laywomen, Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries Anne Jacobson Schutte 6 Flying in Formation: Subjectivity and Collectivity in Luisa de Melgarejo de Soto’s Mystical Practices Stacey Schlau 7 Illuminated Islands: Luisa de los Reyes and the Inquisition in Manila Jessica Fowler PART III Confessional Crossings 8 Elastic Institutions: Beguine Communities in Early Modern Germany Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane 9 Neither Nun nor Laywoman: Entering Lutheran Convents during the Reformation of Female Religious Communities in the Duchy of Braunschweig, 1542-1655 Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer 10 Marina de Saavedra: A Devout Laywomen on a Confessional Frontier (Zamora, 1558-1559) Doris Moreno Martínez 11 Devout Recusant Women, Advice Manuals, and the Creation of Holy Households ""under Siege"" Ellen A. Macek PART IV Alliances 12 Convent Alternatives for Rich and Poor Girls in Seventeenth-Century Florence: The Lay Conservatories of Eleonora Ramirez di Montalvo (1602-59) Jennifer Haraguchi 13 Anne Line: Vowed Laywoman, Recusant Martyr, and Elizabethan Saint Robert E. Scully, S. J. 14 Letters, Books, and Relics: Material and Spiritual Networks in the Life of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza (1564-1614) María J. Pando-Canteli 15 Women Apostles in Early Modern Japan, 1549-1650 Haruko Nawata Ward 16 Jesuit Apologias for Laywomen’s Spirituality Alison Weber Glossary Index"

Reviews

'... a very strong collection of important essays about interesting women who had previously fallen through the cracks of history, brought to light in effective work with riveting primary sources. The range of the content is most impressive, and it is interesting to read not only about the women but the men who hovered over them ... unique and important in the way it prioritizes Spanish religious women in the European context.' Elizabeth Rhodes, Boston College, USA

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Alison Weber is Professor of Spanish with a joint appointment in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia, USA.

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