UID:
almafu_9958352315602883
Format:
1 online resource (272 pages) :
,
illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Edition:
System requirements: Web browser.
Edition:
Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
ISBN:
9780812204544
Content:
Warren explores the political dimensions of the religious practices of women in the later medieval and early modern periods, from St. Colette of Corbie to Isabel of Castile to English nuns exiled during the reign of Elizabeth I.
Note:
Frontmatter --
,
Contents --
,
Introduction --
,
1. Monastic Politics: St. Colette of Corbie, Franciscan Reform, and the House of Burgundy --
,
2. Strategic Saints and Diplomatic Devotion: Margaret of York, Anne d’Orléans, and Female Political Action --
,
3. The Sword and the Cloister: Joan of Arc, Margaret of Anjou, and Christine de Pizan in England, 1445–1540 --
,
4. Religion and Female Rule: Isabel of Castile and the Construction of Queenship --
,
5. The Mystic, the Monarch, and the Persistence of "the Medieval": Elizabeth Barton and Henry VIII --
,
6. Dissolution, Diaspora, and DeWning Englishness: Syon in Exile and Elizabethan Politics --
,
Conclusion: The Power of the Past --
,
Notes --
,
Works Cited --
,
Index --
,
Acknowledgments.
,
In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812204544
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204544
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204544
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
