Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World

Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World

Weber, Alison

Taylor & Francis Ltd

10/2024

390

Mole

9781032920726

15 a 20 dias

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List of Illustrations

Contributors

A Note on Texts and Translations

Introduction Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern Catholic World: The Historiographic Challenge

Alison Weber

PART I Service

1 Community, Conflict, and Local Authority: The Basque Seroras

Amanda Scott

2 The Company of St. Ursula in Italy in Counter-Reformation Italy

Querciolo Mazzonis

3 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

4 Historicizing the Beatas: The Figures behind Reformation and Counter-Reformation Conflicts

Maria Laura Giordano

5 Ecco la santa! Printed Italian Biographies of Devout Laywomen, Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries

Anne Jacobson Schutte

6 Flying in Formation: Subjectivity and Collectivity in Luisa de Melgarejo de Soto's Mystical Practices

Stacey Schlau

7 Illuminated Islands: Luisa de los Reyes and the Inquisition in Manila

Jessica Fowler

PART III Confessional Crossings

8 Elastic Institutions: Beguine Communities in Early Modern Germany

Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane

9 Neither Nun nor Laywoman: Entering Lutheran Convents during the Reformation of Female Religious Communities in the Duchy of Braunschweig, 1542-1655

Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer

10 Marina de Saavedra: A Devout Laywomen on a Confessional Frontier (Zamora, 1558-1559)

Doris Moreno Martinez

11 Devout Recusant Women, Advice Manuals, and the Creation of Holy Households "under Siege"

Ellen A. Macek

PART IV Alliances

12 Convent Alternatives for Rich and Poor Girls in Seventeenth-Century Florence: The Lay Conservatories of Eleonora Ramirez di Montalvo (1602-59)

Jennifer Haraguchi

13 Anne Line: Vowed Laywoman, Recusant Martyr, and Elizabethan Saint

Robert E. Scully, S. J.

14 Letters, Books, and Relics: Material and Spiritual Networks in the Life of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza (1564-1614)

Maria J. Pando-Canteli

15 Women Apostles in Early Modern Japan, 1549-1650

Haruko Nawata Ward

16 Jesuit Apologias for Laywomen's Spirituality

Alison Weber

Glossary

Index
Devout Laywomen;Young Men;Pious Laywomen;De Cazalla;La Quiete;De Marillac;Circa Pastoralis;Angela Merici;Married Woman;Rosa De Santa;Devout Women;Auto De Fe;Wet Nurse;Society Of Jesus;Anne Line;Holy Office;Tridentine Decrees;Rosa De Lima;Women Catechists;Mental Prayer;Active Apostolate;Ferdinando Ii De;Philip III;Germana De Foix;Spanish Language