Women, Gender and Radical Religion in Early Modern Europe

Sylvia Brown, Ph.D. (1994) in English, Princeton University, is Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada. She has published essays on women’s writing and religious culture and is the editor of Women’s Writing in Stuart England (Sutton, 1999).

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviations and ConventionsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction, Sylvia BrownPART I. QUAKER WOMEN AND RADICAL ACTIVISM ACROSS THE BOUNDARIES1. Prophetic Cries at Whitehall: The Gender Dynamics of Early Quaker Women’s Injurious Speech, Kirilka Stavreva2. The Radical Travels of Mary Fisher: Walking and Writing in the Universal Light, Sylvia Brown3. Seven Thousand “Hand-Maids and Daughters of the Lord”: Lincolnshire and Cheshire Quaker Women’s Anti-Tithe Protests in Late Interregnum and Restoration England, Stephen A. Kent4. “Truly Dear Hearts”: Family and Spirituality in Quaker Women’s Writings 1680-1750, Sheila WrightPART II. PROPHETESSES: RADICAL REVISIONS OF KNOWLEDGE, GENDER, BODY, SELF5. “Break down the Walls of Flesh”: Anna Trapnel, John James and Fifth Monarchist Self-Representation, Naomi Baker6. A “Remarkable Female of Womankind”: Gender, Scripture, and Knowledge in the Writings of M. Marsin, Sarah Apetrei7. “Mother of Love”: Spiritual Maternity in the Works of Jane Lead (1624-1704), Julie Hirst8. “I Wish to Be Nothing”: The Role of Self-Denial in the Mystical Theology of Anna Maria van Schurman, Bo Karen LeePART III. WOMEN AND RADICALISM ACROSS EUROPE, ACROSS CONFESSIONS9. Mouldered Away in the Tower With the Fruit of the Womb? On the Treatment of Pregnant Anabaptist Women under Criminal Law, Marion Kobelt-Groch, translated by Dennis Slabaugh10. “They are but Women”: Mary Ward (1585–1645), Pamela Ellis11. Cherchez la femme: Radical Religion in the Life and Poetry of Luisa de Carvajal, José Manuel González12. “A Wise and Godly Sybilla”: Viscountess Ranelagh and the Politics of International Protestantism, Ruth ConnollyIndex

"The dozen essays are uniformly strong, and the rich arguments and in-depth research offered in this collection make compelling and illuminating reading for anyone interested in seventeenth-century religious experience". Kimberly Anne Coles, The University of Maryland. In: Church History and Religious Culture, Vol. 90, No. 2-3 (2010).