Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism

Ulrich L. Lehner is William K. Warren Professor at the University of Notre Dame. A member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, he has received awards and fellowships from the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, the Notre Dame Institute of Advanced Study, the Earhart Foundation, the German Humboldt Foundation and the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation. He is the award-winning author of several scholarly works on early modern and modern history of religion.

• Introduction: Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism: prolegomenaULRICH L. LEHNER1 Piety and popularity: the life and works of Félicité de Genlis (1746–1830) CAROLINA ARMENTEROS 2 Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711–1780): a popular religious pedagogue ALICIA C. MONTOYA 3 Adélaïde d’Orléans (1698–1743): the Abbess of Chelles THERESE TAYLOR 4 Josefa Amar y Borbón (1749–1833): an intellectual woman MÓNICA BOLUFER 5 María Gertrudis Hore (1742–1801): the neoclassic poetry and Enlightenment thought of a cloistered Spanish nun ELIZABETH FRANKLIN LEWIS 6 María Lorenza de los Ríos y Loyo, Marquesa de Fuerte-Híjar: women’s writing and charity in the Spanish EnlightenmentCATHERINE M. JAFFE 7 Teresa de Mello Breyner, Countess of Vimieiro (1739–1798?) RAQUEL BELLO AND ELIAS TORRES 8 Faith, science and the modern body: Anna Morandi’s studies of human anatomy in wax REBECCA MESSBARGER 9 The scientist and the saint: Laura Bassi’s Enlightened Catholicism PAULA FINDLEN10 Maria Eleonora Sporck (1687−1717) and Anna Katharina Swéerts-Sporck (1689−1754): practitioners and promoters of the word at the edge of the EnlightenmentVERONIKA ČAPSKÁ11 Between nation and universe: Caroline Pichler’s (1769−1843) CatholicismANKE GILLEIR12 Faith, education, renewal: Amalia von Gallitzin (1748–1806)ANDREAS OBERDORF13 Maria Kunigunde of Saxony (1740–1826): abbess, princess and industrial pioneer in the Free Secular Women’s College in EssenUTE KUEPPERS-BRAUN14 Between revolutionary Jacobins and English Catholic Cisalpines: the roles of Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821) in the age of EnlightenmentMICHAEL TOMKO15 Fénelonian reform, Catholic Jacobites and Jane Barker’s Enlightenment dramas of conscienceANNA BATTIGELLI16 Izabela Czartoryska and Catholic devotion in the eighteenth-century Polish gardenAGNIESZKA WHELAN

"This path-breaking book explores an original subject: female agency in Enlightenment Catholicism. It shows how the Enlightenment, the history of women and gender, and religious history – subjects which have often been studied in isolation from one another – can be combined to give new insights into the intellectual ferment that took place in the eighteenth century. A team of international historians explores the ways in which individual women in Europe responded to the need to reconcile Enlightenment ideas with their Catholic faith."Marisa Linton, Kingston University, UK"While scholarship both on the Catholic Enlightenment and on women and gender in the eighteenth century has flourished in recent years, the two have rarely been integrated – until now. This lively set of essays from a first-rate group of scholars depicts an array of remarkable women whose intellectual pursuits defied conventional gender expectations, provoking us to rethink the nature of Enlightenment Catholicism and female agency within it. This is a trailblazing volume bound to captivate anyone interested in gender and religion at the threshold of the modern world."Eric Carlsson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA