소장자료

A collection of eleven interdisciplinary essays, which address the multifaceted nature of female religious identity in early modern Europe. It offers cross-cultural readings essential to a comprehensive understanding of the complexity of female spirituality in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Nuns and relics : spiritual authority in post-Tridentine Naplesp. 11Clara Hortulana of Embach or how to suffer martyrdom in the cloisterp. 39How to look like a (female) saint : the early iconography of St Teresa of Avilap. 59Music and misgiving : attitudes towards nuns' music in early modern Spainp. 81Traditions and priorities in Claudia Rusca's motet bookp. 97The wise and foolish virgins in Tuscan convent theatrep. 125Soul mates : spiritual friendship and life-writing in early modern Spain (and beyond)p. 143Barbe Acarie and her spiritual daughters : women's spiritual authority in seventeenth-century Francep. 155The Idea vitae Teresianae (1687) : the Teresian mystic life and its visual representation in the Low Countriesp. 173'Little angels' : young girls in discalced Carmelite convents (1562-1582)p. 211Securing souls or telling tales? : the politics of cloistered life in an English conventp. 227Writing the Thirty Years' War : convent histories by Maria Anna Junius and Elisabeth Heroldp. 245Selected bibliographyp. 261Indexp. 275Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.