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Author:

Warren, Nancy Bradley.

Title:

The embodied Word : female spiritualities, contested orthodoxies, and English religious cultures, 1350-1700 / Nancy Bradley Warren.

Publisher:

University of Notre Dame Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xi, 339 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Christian women--History.--England--History.
Spirituality--England--History.
England--Church history.
Christian women--History.--Europe--History.
Spirituality--Europe--History.
Europe--Church history.
Women authors, English--History.--Europe--History.
Christian literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Human body--History.--Christianity--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : from corpse to corpus -- The incarnational and the international : St. Birgitta of Sweden, St. Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, and Aemilia Lanyer -- Medieval legacies and female spiritualities across the "great divide" : Julian of Norwich, Grace Mildmay, and the English Benedictine nuns of Cambrai and Paris -- Embodying the "old religion" and transforming the body politic : the Brigittine nuns of Syon, Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza, and exiled women religious during the English Civil War -- Women's life writing, women's bodies, and the gendered politics of faith : Margery Kempe, Anna Trapnel, and Elizabeth Cary -- The embodied presence of the past : medieval history, female spirituality, and traumatic textuality, 1570-1700.

Series:

Reformations

ISBN:

0268044201 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780268044206 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)642352051

LCCN:

2010024341

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)