Voices of Thunder

Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Voices of Thunder illuminates the stories and beliefs of more than a dozen seventeenth-century radical Protestant women, including a Colchester woman who feared that her four children would starve to death and a former maidservant from Yorkshire who was granted an audience with the sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Their belief in spiritual equality empowered them to resist the status quo, questioning the authority of those who sought to lord it over them. From mostly humble backgrounds, they found ways to make their voices heard, creating some of the earliest autobiographical accounts in English and allowing us a rare and precious glimpse of the lives and experiences of women in the early modern era.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-10-13
Mått138 x 216 x 32 mm
Vikt528 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagReaktion Books
ISBN9781836391197

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Baker’s book explores how many women were empowered by the conviction of their faith - and the liberating possibilities of the absence of censorship - to articulate their experiences and to shake the foundations of old-established traditions and practices . . . This is a brilliant subject for a book: the many different sects of the period really did have high-profile, highly vocal women in their ranks, even if those voices, and their distinctly female perspectives, have continued to be drowned out in much of the historiography.