Women, gender, and radical religion in early modern Europe / / edited by Sylvia Brown.

• Superior document: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, v. 129
• TeilnehmendeR: Brown, Sylvia Monica, 1966-
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 129.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (339 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This collection of twelve new essays explores the role of women and gender in a broad range of ‘radical’ religious movements of the post-Reformation. Organized into three themed divisions, the first examines the activism of female Quakers in their public performances as preachers and petitioners, in their global travels, and in their domestic lives; the second examines early modern prophetesses and their radical revisions of scripture, gender, body, and voice; and the third concerns women who, in diverse ways, crossed boundaries, including the confessional boundaries of Europe. A strength of this volume is its comparative re-examination of the term ‘radical’. German Anabaptists are discussed alongside unorthodox nuns with the aim of understanding how gender factors into innovative and oppositional religion. Contributors include: Sarah Apetrei, Naomi Baker, Sylvia Brown, Ruth Connolly, Pamela Ellis, José Manuel González, Julie Hirst, Stephen A. Kent, Marion Kobelt-Groch, Bo Karen Lee, Kirilka Stavreva, and Sheila Wright.

Table of Contents

Quaker women and radical activism across the boundaries -- Prophetesses : radical revisions of knowledge, gender, body, self -- Women and radicalism across Europe, across confessions.