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Devout laywomen raise a number of provocative questions about gender and religion in the early modern world. How did some groups or individuals evade the Tridentine legislation that required third order women to take solemn vows and observe active and passive enclosure? How did their attempts to exercise a female apostolate (albeit with varying degrees of success and assertiveness) destabilize hierarchies of class and gender? To the extent that their beliefs and practices diverged from approved doctrine and rituals, what insights can they provide into the tensions between official religion and lay religiosity? Addressing these and many other questions, Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World reflects new directions in gender history, offering a more nuanced approach to the paradigm of woman as the prototypical "disciplined" subject of church-state power.

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'... a very strong collection of important essays about interesting women who had previously fallen through the cracks of history, brought to light in effective work with riveting primary sources. The range of the content is most impressive, and it is interesting to read not only about the women but the men who hovered over them ... unique and important in the way it prioritizes Spanish religious women in the European context.' Elizabeth Rhodes, Boston College, USA

List of Figures
x
List of Contributors
xi
Acknowledgments xiv
A Note on Texts and Translations xv
Introduction Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World: The Historiographic Challenge 1(28)
Alison Weber
PART I Service
29(60)
1 Community, Conflict, and Local Authority: The Basque Seroras
31(17)
Amanda L. Scott
2 The Company of St. Ursula in Counter-Reformation Italy
48(21)
Querciolo Mazzonis
3 Nursing as a Vocation or a Profession? Women's Status and the Meaning of Healing in Early Modern France and England
69(20)
Susan Dinan
PART II Perceptions of Holiness
89(84)
4 Historicizing the Beatas: The Figures behind Reformation and Counter-Reformation Conflicts
91(21)
Maria Laura Giordano
5 Ecco la santa! Printed Italian Biographies of Devout Laywomen, Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries
112(21)
Anne Jacobson Schutte
6 Flying in Formation: Subjectivity and Collectivity in Luisa Melgarejo de Soto's Mystical Practices
133(19)
Stacey Schlau
7 Illuminated Islands: Luisa de los Reyes and the Inquisition in Manila
152(21)
Jessica Fowler
PART III Confessional Crossings
173(80)
8 Elastic Institutions: Beguine Communities in Early Modern Germany
175(21)
Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane
9 Neither Nun nor Laywoman: Entering Lutheran Convents during the Reformation of Female Religious Communities in the Duchy of Braunschweig, 1542--1655
196(23)
Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer
10 Marina de Saavedra: A Devout Laywoman on a Confessional Frontier (Zamora, 1558--1559)
219(16)
Doris Moreno Martinez
11 Devout Recusant Women, Advice Manuals, and the Creation of Holy Households "Under Siege"
235(18)
Ellen A. Macek
PART IV Alliances
253(100)
12 Convent Alternatives for Rich and Poor Girls in Seventeenth-Century Florence: The Lay Conservatories of Eleonora Ramirez di Montalvo (1602--1659)
255(21)
Jennifer Haraguchi
13 The Lives of Anne Line: Vowed Laywoman, Recusant Martyr, and Elizabethan Saint
276(18)
Robert E. Scully
14 Letters, Books, and Relics: Material and Spiritual Networks in the Life of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza (1564--1614)
294(18)
Maria J. Pando-Canteli
15 Women Apostles in Early Modern Japan, 1549--1650
312(19)
Haruko Nawata Ward
16 Jesuit Apologias for Laywomen's Spirituality
331(22)
Alison Weber
Glossary 353(8)
Index 361
Alison Weber is Professor of Spanish with a joint appointment in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia, USA.
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