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Embracing a multiconfessional and transnational approach that
stretches from central Europe, to Scotland and England, from Iberia
to Africa and Asia, this volume explores the lives, work, and
experiences of women and men during the tumultuous fifteenth to
seventeenth centuries. The authors, all leading experts in their
fields, utilize a broad range of methodologies from cultural
history to women's history, from masculinity studies to digital
mapping, to explore the dynamics and power of constructed gender
roles. Ranging from intellectual representations of virginity to
the plight of refugees, from the sea journeys of Jesuit
missionaries to the impact of Transatlantic economies on women's
work, from nuns discovering new ways to tolerate different
religious expressions to bleeding corpses used in criminal trials,
these essays address the wide diversity and historical complexity
of identity, gender, and the body in the early modern age. With its
diversity of topics, fields, and interests of its authors, this
volume is a valuable source for students and scholars of the
history of women, gender, and sexuality as well as social and
cultural history in the early modern world.
Embracing a multiconfessional and transnational approach that
stretches from central Europe, to Scotland and England, from Iberia
to Africa and Asia, this volume explores the lives, work, and
experiences of women and men during the tumultuous fifteenth to
seventeenth centuries. The authors, all leading experts in their
fields, utilize a broad range of methodologies from cultural
history to women's history, from masculinity studies to digital
mapping, to explore the dynamics and power of constructed gender
roles. Ranging from intellectual representations of virginity to
the plight of refugees, from the sea journeys of Jesuit
missionaries to the impact of Transatlantic economies on women's
work, from nuns discovering new ways to tolerate different
religious expressions to bleeding corpses used in criminal trials,
these essays address the wide diversity and historical complexity
of identity, gender, and the body in the early modern age. With its
diversity of topics, fields, and interests of its authors, this
volume is a valuable source for students and scholars of the
history of women, gender, and sexuality as well as social and
cultural history in the early modern world.
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A Typical Boy (Paperback)
Amy Leonard; Edited by Phillip May; R E Skellon
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R310
Discovery Miles 3 100
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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During the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther took the biblical
maxim "be fruitful and multiply" and used it within the realm of
marriage as the cornerstone of his new Christian community. By
denying the spiritual superiority of celibacy and introducing new
tenets regarding gender, marriage, chastity, and religious life,
Luther challenged one of the key expressions of
Catholicism--monastic life. Yet many religious living in cloistered
communities, particularly women, refused to accept these new terms
and successfully opposed the new Protestant culture.
Focusing primarily on a group of Dominican nuns in Strasbourg,
Germany, Amy Leonard's "Nails in the Wall" outlines the
century-long battle between these nuns and the Protestant city
council. Using their charm, wealth, and political and social
connections, the nuns were able to sustain their Catholic
practices. Leonard's in-depth archival research uncovers letters
about and records of the nuns' struggle to maintain their religious
beliefs and way of life in the face of Protestant reforms. She
tells the story of how they worked privately to keep Catholicism
alive--continuing to pray in Latin, smuggling in priests to
celebrate Mass, and secretly professing scores of novices to ensure
the survival of their convents. This fascinating and heartening
study shows that, far from passively allowing the Protestants to
dismantle their belief system, the women of the Strasbourg convents
were active participants in the battle over their vocation and
independence.
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