The religious and political spheres of the later medieval and early
modern periods were tightly and indisputably interwoven, as
illustrated by the papal schism, the Hundred Years War, the
Reconquest of Spain, and the English Reformation. In these events
as well as in the larger religiopolitical systems in which they
unfolded, female saints, devout lay women, and monastic women
played central roles. In Women of God and Arms, Nancy Bradley
Warren explores the political dimensions of the religious practices
of women ranging from St. Colette of Corbie to Isabel of Castile to
English nuns exiled during the reign of Elizabeth I. Just as
religious and political systems were bound up with one another, so
too were the internal and external politics of England and several
continental realms. Blood and marriage connected the English
dynasties of Lancaster and York with those of France, Burgundy,
Flanders, and Castile, creating tangled networks of alliances and
animosities. In addition to being linked through ties of kinship,
these realms were joined by frequent textual and cultural
exchanges. Warren draws upon a wide variety of sources-hagiography,
chronicles, monastic records, devotional treatises, military
manuals, political propaganda, and texts traditionally designated
as literary-as she examines the ways manifestations of female
spirituality operated at the intersections of civic, international,
and ecclesiastical politics. Her exploration breaches boundaries
separating the medieval and the early modern, the religious and the
secular, the material and the symbolic, the literary and the
historical, as it sheds new light on well-known figures such as
Joan of Arc, Isabel of Castile, and Elizabeth I.
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