Gender, Catholicism and spirituality: women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe, 1200-1900

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. CARMEN M. MANGION is Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. . LAURENCE LUX-STERRITT is Lecturer in British History atthe University of Aix-Marseille, France. INDICE: - List of Tables - Acknowledgements - List of Contributors - Preface - Introduction: Gender, Catholicism, Women's Spirituality over the Longue Duree; 'L.Lux-Sterritt '&' C.M.Mangion' - Presence and Absence in Thirteenth Century Italy: Reading Clare of Assisi in Franciscan Liturgy and Community; 'A.Welch' - Marguerite Porete and the Predicament of her Preaching in Fourteenth Century France; 'R.Lahav' - The Impact of Renaissance Gender-Related Notions onthe Female Experience of the Sacred: The Case of Angela Merici's Ursulines; 'Q.Mazzonis ' - Teresa de Jesus's 'Book 'and the Reform of the Religious Man inSixteenth Century Spain; 'E.Rhodes ' - Mary Ward's English Institute and Prescribed Female Roles in the Early Modern Church; 'L.Lux-Sterritt' - An English Nun's Authority: Early Modern Spiritual Controversy and the Manuscripts of Barbara Constable; 'J.Lay' - Power in Piety: Inspiration, Ambitions and Strategies of Spiritual Virgins in the Northern Netherlands during the Seventeenth Century; 'M.Monteiro ' - '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' - Expressions of Self-surrender in Nineteenth-Century France: The Case of Therese Couderc (1805-1885); 'K.Stogdon - 'The 'Mixed Life': Challenging Understandings of Religious Life in Victorian England; 'C.M.Mangion' - Afterword; 'F.E.Dolan' - Glossary - Further Reading - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-57761-9
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 09/12/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido