Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy
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Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy

A Religious and Artistic Renaissance

  1. 376 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy

A Religious and Artistic Renaissance

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Preface and Acknowledgments
  4. 1. Introduction: Women's Creativity in Religious Context
  5. Part I: Women's Religious Expression: Thirteenth to 17 Fifteenth Centuries
  6. 2. The Feminine Mind in Medieval Mysticism
  7. 3. The Authorial Role of Brother A. in the Composition of Angela of Foligno's Revelations
  8. 4. Women and the Production of Religious Literature in the Vernacular, 1300-1500
  9. 5. Urban Spaces, Women's Networks, and the Lay Apostolate in the Siena of Catherine Benincasa
  10. 6. Chiara Gambacorta of Pisa as Patroness of the Arts
  11. Part II: Women's Religious Expression: Sixteenth and 155 Seventeenth Centuries
  12. 7. Piety and Patronage: Women and the Early Jesuits
  13. 8. Per Speculum in Enigmate: Failed Saints, Artists, and Self-Construction of the Female Body in Early Modern Italy
  14. 9. The Commentary on the Rule of Clare of Assisi by Maria Domitilla Galluzzi
  15. 10. The Mystic Humanism of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566-1607)
  16. 11. Ursula and Catherine: The Marriage of Virgins in the Sixteenth Century
  17. Part III: Women's Artistic Expression: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
  18. 12. Suor Maria Clemente Ruoti, Playwright and Academician
  19. 13. The Making Of Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana's Componimenti Musicali (1623)
  20. 14. Four Views of Milanese Nuns' Music
  21. Notes on the Contributors
  22. Index of Modern Authors
  23. General Index