Women of God And Arms
Subtitle: Female Spirituality And Political Conflict, 1380-1600
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: September 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780812238921
Subjects: Gender studies; Women's Studies - History; Religion; Europe; Religion - Church History; Women in politics; Medieval; To 1500; Christianity - History - General; Christianity - General; Christian women; History; Religious life
First sentence: WHEN I WAS FINISHING the archival research for this project, I came across an eighteenth-century French manuscript in the British Library (London British Library MS Add. 25,351) containing copies of accounts of "funeral ceremonies, performed chiefly in the Netherlands, in honour of sovereigns and princes."
Description: "In Women of God and Arms, Nancy Bradley Warren explores the political dimensions of the religious practices of women ranging from St. Colette of Corbie to Isabel of Castile to English nuns exiled during the reign of Elizabeth I." "Warren draws upon a wide variety of sources - hagiography, chronicles, monastic records, devotional treatises, military manuals, political propaganda, and texts traditionally designated as literary - as she examines the ways manifestations of female spirituality operated at the intersections of civic, international, and ecclesiastical politics. Her exploration breaches boundaries separating the medieval and the early modern, the religious and the secular, the material and the symbolic, the literary and the historical, as it sheds new light on well-known figures such as Joan of Arc, Isabel of Castile, and Elizabeth I."--BOOK JACKET.