The Embodied Word : Female Spiritualities, Contested Orthodoxies, and English Religious Cultures, 1350-1700.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780268096687
- Christian women-Religious life-England-History
- Spirituality-England-History
- Christian women-Religious life-Europe-History
- Spirituality-Europe-History
- Women authors, English-Religious life-Europe-History
- Christian literature-Women authors-History and criticism
- Human body-Religious aspects-Christianity-History
- England-Church history
- Europe-Church history
- 274.1/05082
- BR747 .W37 2010
Cover -- Half title -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Incarnational and the International -- Chapter Two: Medieval Legacies and Female Spiritualities across the "Great Divide" -- Chapter Three: Embodying the "Old Religion" and Transforming the Body Politic -- Chapter Four: Women's Life Writing, Women's Bodies, and the Gendered Politics of Faith -- Chapter Five: The Embodied Presence of the Past -- Notes -- Index.
The Embodied Word expands on the topic of female spirituality to encompass broad issues of religion, gender, and historical periodization.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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