Women of God and Arms : : Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 138-16 / / Nancy Bradley Warren.
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 syst...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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