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Title Women, gender, and radical religion in early modern Europe / edited by Sylvia Brown
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 319 pages)
Series Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; v. 129
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 129.
Contents Quaker women and radical activism across the boundaries. Prophetic cries at Whitehall : the gender dynamics of early Quaker women's injurious speech / Kirilka Stavreva. The radical travels of Mary Fisher : walking and writing in the universal light / Sylvia Brown. Seven thousand "hand-maids and daughters of the Lord" : Lincolnshire and Cheshire Quaker women's anti-tithe protests in late Interregnum and Restoration England / Stephen A. Kent. "Truly dear hearts" : family and spirituality in Quaker women's writings 1680-1750 / Sheila Wright -- Prophetesses : radical revisions of knowledge, gender, body, self. "Break down the walls of flesh" : Anna Trapnel, John James, and Fifth Monarchist self-representation / Naomi Baker. A "remarkable female of womankind" : gender, Scripture, and knowledge in the wriitngs of M. Marsin / Sarah Apetrei. "Mother of love " : spiritual maternity in the works of Jane Lead (1624-1704) / Julie Hirst. "I wish to be nothing" : the role of self-denial in the mystical theology of Anna Maria van Schurman / Bo Karen Lee -- Women and radicalism across Europe, across confessions. Mouldered away in the Tower with the fruit of the womb? : on the treatment of pregnant Anabaptist women under criminal law / Marion Kobelt-Groch ; translated by Dennis L. Slabaugh. "They are but women" : Mary Ward, 1585-1645 / Pamela Ellis. Cherchez la femme : radical religion in the life and poetry of Luisa de Carvajal / José Manuel González. "A wise and godly Sybilla" : Viscountess Ranelagh and the politics of international Protestantism / Ruth Connolly
Summary This collection of essays explores the role of women and gender in a broad range of 'radical' religious movements of the post-Reformation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Börngen, ... gnd
Europa gnd
Subject Women in Christianity -- Europe -- History
Christian women -- Religious life -- Europe
Women -- Religious life -- Europe
Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History
RELIGION -- Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Women and religion -- Europe -- History.
Radicalism -- Religious aspects.
Radicalism -- Europe.
Christian women -- Religious life
Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Women in Christianity
Women -- Religious life
Radikalismus
Religion
Frau
Vrouwen.
Christendom.
Radicale bewegingen.
Europe
Europa
Europa (geografie)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Brown, Sylvia Monica, 1966-
ISBN 9789047422747
9047422740
1281939668
9781281939661
9786611939663
6611939660