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This collection of twelve new essays explores the role of women and gender in a broad range of ‘radical’ religious movements of the post-Reformation. Organized into three themed divisions, the first examines the activism of female Quakers in their public performances as preachers and petitioners, in their global travels, and in their domestic lives; the second examines early modern prophetesses and their radical revisions of scripture, gender, body, and voice; and the third concerns women who, in diverse ways, crossed boundaries, including the confessional boundaries of Europe. A strength of this volume is its comparative re-examination of the term ‘radical’. German Anabaptists are discussed alongside unorthodox nuns with the aim of understanding how gender factors into innovative and oppositional religion.
Contributors include: Sarah Apetrei, Naomi Baker, Sylvia Brown, Ruth Connolly, Pamela Ellis, José Manuel González, Julie Hirst, Stephen A. Kent, Marion Kobelt-Groch, Bo Karen Lee, Kirilka Stavreva, and Sheila Wright.
Contributors include: Sarah Apetrei, Naomi Baker, Sylvia Brown, Ruth Connolly, Pamela Ellis, José Manuel González, Julie Hirst, Stephen A. Kent, Marion Kobelt-Groch, Bo Karen Lee, Kirilka Stavreva, and Sheila Wright.
Price: $179.00
Pages: 326
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions
Publication Date:
13 November 2007
ISBN: 9789004163065
Format: Hardcover
"The dozen essays are uniformly strong, and the rich arguments and in-depth research offered in this collection make compelling and illuminating reading for anyone interested in seventeenth-century religious experience". Kimberly Anne Coles, The University of Maryland. In: Church History and Religious Culture, Vol. 90, No. 2-3 (2010).
Sylvia Brown, Ph.D. (1994) in English, Princeton University, is Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada. She has published essays on women’s writing and religious culture and is the editor of Women’s Writing in Stuart England (Sutton, 1999).