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Devout laywomen in the early modern world / edited by Alison Weber.

Contributor(s): Weber, Alison, 1947- [editor.] | Ward, Haruko Nawata
Material type: TextTextSeries: Women and gender in the early modern world: Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016Description: xiii, 373 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472424914; 1472424913Subject(s): Monastic and religious life of women -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 | Women in Christianity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600DDC classification: 270.6082 LOC classification: BR195.W6 | D48 2016Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Devout laywomen in the early modern world: the historiographic challenge / Alison Weber -- Service -- Community, conflict, and local authority: the Basque seroras / Amanda L. Scott -- The company of St. Ursula in Counter-Reformation Italy / Querciolo Mazzonis -- Nursing as a vocation or a profession? Women's status and the meaning of healing in early modern France and England / Susan Dinan -- Perceptions of holiness -- Historicizing the beatas: the figures behind Reformation and Counter-Reformation conflicts / Maria Laura Giordano -- Ecco la santa! Printed Italian biographies of devout laywomen, seventeenth-eighteenth centuries / Anne Jacobson Schutte -- Flying in formation: subjectivity and collectivity in Luisa Melgarejo de Soto's mystical practices / Stacey Schlau -- Illuminated islands: Luisa de los Reyes and the inquisition in Manila / Jessica Fowler -- Confessional crossings -- Elastic institutions: Beguine communities in early modern Germany / Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane -- Neither nun nor laywoman: entering Lutheran convents during the Reformation of female religious communities in the Duchy of Braunschweig, 1542-1655 / Margorie Elizabeth Plummer -- Marina de Saavedra: a devout laywoman on a confessional frontier (Zamora, 1558-1559) / Doris Moreno Martínez -- Devout recusant women, advice manuals, and the creation of holy households "Under siege" / Ellen A. Macek -- Alliances -- Convent alternatives for rich and poor girls in seventeenth-century Florence: the lay conservatories of Eleonora Ramirez di Montalvo (1602-1659) / Jennifer Haraguchi -- The lives of Anne Line: vowed laywoman, recusant martyr, and Elizabethan saint / Robert E. Scully, S.J. -- Letters, books, and relics: material and spiritual networks in the life of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza (1564-1614) / María J. Pando-Canteli -- Women apostles in early modern Japan, 1549-1650 / Haruko Nawata Ward -- Jesuit apologias for laywomen's spirituality / Alison Weber.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Faculty Collection Midrange BR195.W6 D48 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903375646
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Faculty Collection Special Collections (by appointment only) BR195.W6 D48 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Not For Loan 0182903366058

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Devout laywomen in the early modern world: the historiographic challenge / Alison Weber -- Part I: Service -- Community, conflict, and local authority: the Basque seroras / Amanda L. Scott -- The company of St. Ursula in Counter-Reformation Italy / Querciolo Mazzonis -- 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 -- Historicizing the beatas: the figures behind Reformation and Counter-Reformation conflicts / Maria Laura Giordano -- Ecco la santa! Printed Italian biographies of devout laywomen, seventeenth-eighteenth centuries / Anne Jacobson Schutte -- Flying in formation: subjectivity and collectivity in Luisa Melgarejo de Soto's mystical practices / Stacey Schlau -- Illuminated islands: Luisa de los Reyes and the inquisition in Manila / Jessica Fowler -- Part III: Confessional crossings -- Elastic institutions: Beguine communities in early modern Germany / Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane -- Neither nun nor laywoman: entering Lutheran convents during the Reformation of female religious communities in the Duchy of Braunschweig, 1542-1655 / Margorie Elizabeth Plummer -- Marina de Saavedra: a devout laywoman on a confessional frontier (Zamora, 1558-1559) / Doris Moreno Martínez -- Devout recusant women, advice manuals, and the creation of holy households "Under siege" / Ellen A. Macek -- Part IV: Alliances -- Convent alternatives for rich and poor girls in seventeenth-century Florence: the lay conservatories of Eleonora Ramirez di Montalvo (1602-1659) / Jennifer Haraguchi -- The lives of Anne Line: vowed laywoman, recusant martyr, and Elizabethan saint / Robert E. Scully, S.J. -- Letters, books, and relics: material and spiritual networks in the life of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza (1564-1614) / María J. Pando-Canteli -- Women apostles in early modern Japan, 1549-1650 / Haruko Nawata Ward -- Jesuit apologias for laywomen's spirituality / Alison Weber.

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