Women, Gender and Radical Religion in Early Modern Europe (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions)

Contents
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Acknowledgements......Page 8
Abbreviations and Conventions......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Introduction (Sylvia Brown)......Page 16
PART ONE QUAKER WOMEN AND RADICAL ACTIVISM ACROSS THE BOUNDARIES......Page 30
Prophetic Cries at Whitehall: The Gender Dynamics of Early Quaker Women's Injurious Speech (Kirilka Stavreva)......Page 32
The Radical Travels of Mary Fisher: Walking and Writing in the Universal Light (Sylvia Brown)......Page 54
Seven Thousand "Hand-Maids and Daughters of the Lord": Lincolnshire and Cheshire Quaker Women's Anti-Tithe Protests in Late Interregnum and Restoration England (Stephen A. Kent)......Page 80
"Truly Dear Hearts": Family and Spirituality in Quaker Women's Writings 1680–1750 (Sheila Wright)......Page 112
PART TWO PROPHETESSES: RADICAL REVISIONS OF KNOWLEDGE, GENDER, BODY, SELF......Page 130
"Break down the walls of flesh": Anna Trapnel, John James, and Fifth Monarchist Self-Representation (Naomi Baker)......Page 132
A "Remarkable Female of Womankind": Gender, Scripture, and Knowledge in the Writings of M. Marsin (Sarah Apetrei)......Page 154
"Mother of Love": Spiritual Maternity in the Works of Jane Lead (1624–1704) (Julie Hirst)......Page 176
"I Wish to Be Nothing": The Role of Self-Denial in the Mystical Theology of Anna Maria van Schurman (Bo Karen Lee)......Page 204
PART THREE WOMEN AND RADICALISM ACROSS EUROPE, ACROSS CONFESSIONS......Page 232
Mouldered Away in the Tower With the Fruit of the Womb? On the Treatment of Pregnant Anabaptist Women under Criminal Law (Marion Kobelt-Groch, translated by Dennis L. Slabaugh)......Page 234
"They are but Women": Mary Ward, 1585–1645 (Pamela Ellis)......Page 258
Cherchez la femme: Radical Religion in the Life and Poetry of Luisa de Carvajal (José Manuel González)......Page 280
"A Wise and Godly Sybilla": Viscountess Ranelagh and the Politics of International Protestantism (Ruth Connolly)......Page 300
Index......Page 322