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English women, religion, and textual production, 1500-1625 / edited by Micheline White.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Women and gender in the early modern worldPublication details: Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 252 pages) : illustrations, portraitContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781409406525
  • 1409406520
  • 1409406512
  • 9781409406518
  • 1283089718
  • 9781283089715
  • 1317142896
  • 9781317142898
  • 9786613089717
  • 6613089710
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: English women, religion, and textual production, 1500-1625.DDC classification:
  • 809/.89287 22
LOC classification:
  • PR113 .E54 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction : women, religious communities, prose genres, and textual production / Micheline White -- Living stones : Lady Elizabeth Russell and the art of sacred conversation / Patricia Phillippy -- Theise dearest offrings of my heart : the sacrifice of praise in Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke's Psalmes / Mary Trull -- Anne Dacre Howard, Countess of Arundel, and Catholic patronage / Susannah Brietz Monta -- Ensigne-bearers of Saint Clare : Elizabeth Evelinge's early translations and the restoration of England franciscanism / Jaime Goodrich -- Lady Anne Clifford and the uses of Christian warfare / Julie Crawford -- Prospecting for common ground in devotion : Queen Katherine Parr's personal prayerbook / Janel Mueller -- "Halff a scrypture woman" : heteroglossia and female authorial agency in prayers by Lady Elizabeth Tyrwhit, Anne Lock, and Anne Wheathill / Susan M. Felch -- Authority, scripture, and typography in Lady Grace Mildmay's manuscript meditations / Kate Narveson -- Lady Margaret Beaufort's translations as mirrors as practical piety / Brenda M. Hosington -- "Nether bitterly nor brablingly" : Lady Anne Cooke Bacon's translation of Bishop Jewel's Apologia ecclesiae anglicanae / Patricia Demers.
Summary: Focusing on Tudor and Jacobean women's religious literary activities, this volume explores the complex ways in which texts, authors and patrons responded to key religious, political, social and literary developments. The collection highlights the vitality of neglected genres such as prayers, meditations and translations, and it stresses the importance of women's engagement with both Catholic and Reformed religion during the period.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)398132

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : women, religious communities, prose genres, and textual production / Micheline White -- Living stones : Lady Elizabeth Russell and the art of sacred conversation / Patricia Phillippy -- Theise dearest offrings of my heart : the sacrifice of praise in Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke's Psalmes / Mary Trull -- Anne Dacre Howard, Countess of Arundel, and Catholic patronage / Susannah Brietz Monta -- Ensigne-bearers of Saint Clare : Elizabeth Evelinge's early translations and the restoration of England franciscanism / Jaime Goodrich -- Lady Anne Clifford and the uses of Christian warfare / Julie Crawford -- Prospecting for common ground in devotion : Queen Katherine Parr's personal prayerbook / Janel Mueller -- "Halff a scrypture woman" : heteroglossia and female authorial agency in prayers by Lady Elizabeth Tyrwhit, Anne Lock, and Anne Wheathill / Susan M. Felch -- Authority, scripture, and typography in Lady Grace Mildmay's manuscript meditations / Kate Narveson -- Lady Margaret Beaufort's translations as mirrors as practical piety / Brenda M. Hosington -- "Nether bitterly nor brablingly" : Lady Anne Cooke Bacon's translation of Bishop Jewel's Apologia ecclesiae anglicanae / Patricia Demers.

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Focusing on Tudor and Jacobean women's religious literary activities, this volume explores the complex ways in which texts, authors and patrons responded to key religious, political, social and literary developments. The collection highlights the vitality of neglected genres such as prayers, meditations and translations, and it stresses the importance of women's engagement with both Catholic and Reformed religion during the period.

English.