Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World
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Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World

  1. 374 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World

About this book

Devout laywomen raise a number of provocative questions about gender and religion in the early modern world. How did some groups or individuals evade the Tridentine legislation that required third order women to take solemn vows and observe active and passive enclosure? How did their attempts to exercise a female apostolate (albeit with varying degrees of success and assertiveness) destabilize hierarchies of class and gender? To the extent that their beliefs and practices diverged from approved doctrine and rituals, what insights can they provide into the tensions between official religion and lay religiosity? Addressing these and many other questions, Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World reflects new directions in gender history, offering a more nuanced approach to the paradigm of woman as the prototypical "disciplined" subject of church-state power.

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Yes, you can access Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World by Alison Weber in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Early Modern History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781472424914
eBook ISBN
9781317151623
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Early Modern History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. A Note on Texts and Translations
  9. Introduction Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World: The Historiographic Challenge
  10. Part I Service
  11. Part II Perceptions of Holiness
  12. Part III Confessional Crossings
  13. Part IV Alliances
  14. Glossary
  15. Index