English women, religion, and textual production, 1500-1625
By: edited by Micheline White
Series: Women and gender in the early modern world; Women and gender in the early modern world
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781409406518; 9781409406525
Subjects: English literature; Religion in literature; Religion and literature; History and criticism; Women and religion; Women authors; Women and literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: women, religious communities, prose genres, and textual production / Micheline White; title: Living stones: Lady Elizabeth Russell and the art of sacred conversation / Patricia Phillippy; title: Theise dearest offrings of my heart: the sacrifice of praise in Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke's Psalmes / Mary Trull; title: Anne Dacre Howard, Countess of Arundel, and Catholic patronage / Susannah Brietz Monta; title: Ensigne-bearers of Saint Clare: Elizabeth Evelinge's early translations and the restoration of England franciscanism / Jaime Goodrich; title: Lady Anne Clifford and the uses of Christian warfare / Julie Crawford; title: Prospecting for common ground in devotion: Queen Katherine parr's personal prayerbook / Janel Mueller; title: "Halff a scrypture woman": heteroglossia and female authorial agency in prayers by Lady Elizabeth Tyrwhit, Anne Lock, and Anne Wheathill / Susan M. Felch; title: Authority, scripture, and typography in Lady Grace Mildmay's manuscript meditations / Kate Narveson; title: Lady Margaret Beaufort's translations as mirrors as practical piety / Brenda M. Hosington; title: "Nether bitterly nor brablingly": Lady Anne Cooke Bacon's translation of Bishop Jewel's Apologia ecclesiae anglicanae / Patricia Demers.