Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World (Paperback, 1)

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Contributors

A Note on Texts and Translations

Introduction Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern Catholic World: The Historiographic Challenge

Alison Weber

1 Community, Conflict, and Local Authority: The Basque Seroras

Amanda Scott

2 The Company of St. Ursula in Italy in Counter-Reformation Italy 

Querciolo Mazzonis

3 Nursing as a Vocation or a Profession? Women’s Status and the Meaning of Healing in Early Modern France and England

Susan Dinan

4 Historicizing the Beatas: The Figures behind Reformation and Counter-Reformation Conflicts

Maria Laura Giordano

5 Ecco la santa! Printed Italian Biographies of Devout Laywomen, Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries

Anne Jacobson Schutte

6 Flying in Formation: Subjectivity and Collectivity in Luisa de Melgarejo de Soto’s Mystical Practices

Stacey Schlau

7 Illuminated Islands: Luisa de los Reyes and the Inquisition in Manila

Jessica Fowler

8 Elastic Institutions: Beguine Communities in Early Modern Germany

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

Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer

10 Marina de Saavedra: A Devout Laywomen on a Confessional Frontier (Zamora, 1558-1559)

Doris Moreno Martinez

11 Devout Recusant Women, Advice Manuals, and the Creation of Holy Households "under Siege"

Ellen A. Macek

12 Convent Alternatives for Rich and Poor Girls in Seventeenth-Century Florence: The Lay Conservatories of Eleonora Ramirez di Montalvo (1602-59)

Jennifer Haraguchi

13 Anne Line: Vowed Laywoman, Recusant Martyr, and Elizabethan Saint

Robert E. Scully, S. J.

14 Letters, Books, and Relics: Material and Spiritual Networks in the Life of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza (1564-1614)

Maria J. Pando-Canteli

15 Women Apostles in Early Modern Japan, 1549-1650

Haruko Nawata Ward

16 Jesuit Apologias for Laywomen’s Spirituality

Alison Weber

Glossary

Index