Gender, Catholicism and spirituality
Subtitle: women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe, 1200-1900
By: edited by Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Carmen M. Mangion
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780230577619
Subjects: Catholic women; History; Women in the Catholic Church; Catholic Church; Women
Description: "This timely collection of essays, from an international team of authors, spans a wide geographical and chronological spectrum and focuses on female relationships with piety and religious vocations. Ideal for students, each chapter introduces new research and offers a guide to historiographical debates and methodologies"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of Tables; title: Acknowledgements; title: List of Contributors; title: Preface; title: Introduction: Gender, Catholicism, Women's Spirituality over the Longue Duree; L.Lux-Sterritt& C.M.Mangion; title: Presence and Absence in Thirteenth Century Italy: Reading Clare of Assisi in Franciscan Liturgy and Community; A.Welch; title: Marguerite Porete and the Predicament of her Preaching in Fourteenth Century France; R.Lahav; title: The Impact of Renaissance Gender-Related Notions on the Female Experience of the Sacred: The Case of Angela Merici's Ursulines; Q. Mazzonis; title: Teresa de Jesus's Book and the Reform of the Religious Man in Sixteenth Century Spain; E. Rhodes; title: Mary Ward's English Institute and Prescribed Female Roles in the Early Modern Church; L.Lux-Sterritt; title: An English Nun's Authority: Early Modern Spiritual Controversy and the Manuscripts of Barbara Constable; J.Lay; title: Power in Piety: Inspiration, Ambitions and Strategies of Spiritual Virgins in the Northern Netherlands during the Seventeenth Century; M. Monteiro; title: 'Martyrs of England! Standing on High!': Roman Catholic Women's Hymn-writing for the Re-invigoration of the Faith in England, 1850-1900; N.J.Cho; title: Expressions of Self-surrender in Nineteenth-Century France: The Case of Therese Couderc (1805-1885); K.Stogdon; title: The 'Mixed Life': Challenging Understandings of Religious Life in Victorian England; C.M.Mangion; title: Afterword; F.E.Dolan; title: Glossary; title: Further Reading; title: Index.