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

Folger bibliographic ID: 243869
Folger call number: BR747 .W37 2010
Folger holdings ID: 308925

General 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

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

Christian women Spirituality England Europe Women authors, English Christian literature Human body

author: Warren, Nancy Bradley