Women S Prophetic Writings In Seventeenth Century Britain

Author : Carme Font
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317231387

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Women’s Prophetic Writings in Seventeenth-Century Britain by Carme Font Pdf

This study examines women’s prophetic writings in seventeenth-century Britain as the literary outcome of a discourse of social transformation that integrates religious conscience, political participation, and gender identity. The following pages approach prophecy as a culture, a language, and a catalyst for collective change as the individual prophet conceptualized it. While the corpus of prophetic writing continues to grow as the result of archival research, this monograph complements our particular knowledge of women’s prophecy in the seventeenth century with a global assessment of what makes speech prophetic in the first place, and what are the differences and similarities between texts that fall into the prophetic mode. These disparities and commonalities stand out in the radical language of prophecy as well as in the way it creates an authorial centre. Examining how authorship is represented in several configurations of prophetic delivery, such as essays on prophecy, poetic prophecy, spiritual autobiography, and election narratives, the different chapters consider why prophecy peaked in the years of the civil wars and how it evolved towards the eighteenth century. The analyses extrapolate the peculiarities of each case study as being representative of a form of textually-based activism that enabled women to gain a deeper understanding of themselves as creators of independent meaning that empowered them as individuals, citizens, and believers.

Author : Carme Font
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 036787783X

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Women S Prophetic Writings in Seventeenth-Century Britain by Carme Font Pdf

Author : Lady Eleanor Davies
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195358636

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Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies by Lady Eleanor Davies Pdf

Eleanor Davies (1590-1652) was one of the most prolific women writing in early seventeenth-century England. This volume includes thirty-eight of the sixty-some prophetic tracts that she published. Inspired to prophecy by a visionary experience in 1625, the year of Charles I's accession to the throne, she devoted herself to warning her contemporaries that the Day of Judgement was imminent. Her zeal and her intricately constructed tracts confounded contemporaries who called her mad. She experienced repeated imprisonment and also confinement to Bedlam, London's mental hospital. The tracts tell her own story as woman and prophet. They offer an opportunity to study her experiences as wife, mother, and widow; they also exhibit her extraordinary intellect, extensive education, and fascination with words. In showing how England's history was fulfilling the biblical prophecies in the book of Daniel and the book of Revelation, she commented about the political and religious controversies of the turbulent period preceding and during the English Civil War and Revolution.

Author : Phyllis Mack
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0520915585

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Visionary Women by Phyllis Mack Pdf

This study of radical prophecy in 17th-century England explores the significance of gender for religious visionaries between 1650 and 1700. Phyllis Mack focuses on the Society of Friends, or Quakers, the largest radical sectarian group active during the English Civil War and Interregnum. The meeting records, correspondence, almanacs, autobiographical and religious writings left by the early Quakers enable Mack to present a textured portrait of their evolving spirituality. Parallel sources on men and women provide a unique opportunity to pose theoretical questions about the meaning of gender, such as whether a "women's spirituality" can be identified, or whether religious women are more or less emotional than men.

Author : Patricia Crawford,Laura Gowing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134730902

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Women's Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England by Patricia Crawford,Laura Gowing Pdf

Womens Worlds in England presents a unique collection of source materials on womens lives in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. The book introduces a wonderfully diverse group of women and a series of voices that have rarely been heard in history, Drawing on unpublished, archival materials, the book explores women's: * experiences of work, sex, marriage and motherhood * beliefs and spirituality * political activities * relationships * mental worlds. In a time when few women could write, this book reveals the multitude of ways in which their voices have left traces in the written record, and deepens our understanding of womens lives in the past.

Author : John Coffey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191006678

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The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I by John Coffey Pdf

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I traces the emergence of Anglophone Protestant Dissent in the post-Reformation era between the Act of Uniformity (1559) and the Act of Toleration (1689). It reassesses the relationship between establishment and Dissent, emphasising that Presbyterians and Congregationalists were serious contenders in the struggle for religious hegemony. Under Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts, separatists were few in number, and Dissent was largely contained within the Church of England, as nonconformists sought to reform the national Church from within. During the English Revolution (1640-60), Puritan reformers seized control of the state but splintered into rival factions with competing programmes of ecclesiastical reform. Only after the Restoration, following the ejection of two thousand Puritan clergy from the Church, did most Puritans become Dissenters, often with great reluctance. Dissent was not the inevitable terminus of Puritanism, but the contingent and unintended consequence of the Puritan drive for further reformation. The story of Dissent is thus bound up with the contest for the established Church, not simply a heroic tale of persecuted minorities contending for religious toleration. Nevertheless, in the half century after 1640, religious pluralism became a fact of English life, as denominations formed and toleration was widely advocated. The volume explores how Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists, and Quakers began to forge distinct identities as the four major denominational traditions of English Dissent. It tracks the proliferation of Anglophone Protestant Dissent beyond England—in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Dutch Republic, New England, Pennsylvania, and the Caribbean. And it presents the latest research on the culture of Dissenting congregations, including their relations with the parish, their worship, preaching, gender relations, and lay experience.

Author : SARAH. APETREI,Sarah Apetrei
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198836001

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The Reformation of the Heart by SARAH. APETREI,Sarah Apetrei Pdf

This groundbreaking study offers fresh insight into the relationship between radical theology and gender radicalism in the seventeenth-century English Revolution. Examining published works and previously unexplored archival material, Sarah Apetrei shows the transformative role that women played in religious reform during the period.

Author : Lynette Hunter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501514241

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Humanism, Capitalism, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England by Lynette Hunter Pdf

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to concepts of the self associated with the development of humanism in England, and to strategies for both inclusion and exclusion in structuring the early modern nation state. It addresses writings about rhetoric and behavior from 1495–1660, beginning with Erasmus’ work on sermo or the conversational rhetoric between friends, which considers the reader as an ‘absent audience’, and following the transference of this stance to a politics whose broadening democratic constituency needed a legitimate structure for governance-at-a-distance. Unusually, the book brings together the impact on behavior of these new concepts about rhetoric, with the growth of the publishing industry, and the emergence of capitalism and of modern medicine. It explores the effects on the formation of the ‘subject’ and political legitimation of the early liberal nation state. It also lays new ground for scholarship concerned with what is left out of both selfhood and politics by that state, studying examples of a parallel development of the ‘self’ defined by friendship not only from educated male writers, but also from women writers and writers concerned with socially ‘middling’ and laboring people and the poor.

Author : Carolyn A. Barros,Johanna M. Smith
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555534325

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Life-writings by British Women, 1660-1815 by Carolyn A. Barros,Johanna M. Smith Pdf

A pioneering, diverse collection that provides insight into the powerful motive of self-expression that inspired women autobiographers around the eighteenth century.

Author : Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317097419

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Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy by Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde Pdf

The first book-length study devoted to this topic, Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy offers an important contribution to scholarship on the theatre as well as on early modern attitudes in France, specifically on the subject of lying and deception. Unusually for a scholarly work on seventeenth-century theatre, it is particularly alert to plays as performed pieces and not simply printed texts. The study also distinguishes itself by offering original readings of Molière alongside innovative analyses of other playwrights. The chapters offer fresh insights on well-known plays by Molière and Pierre Corneille but also invite readers to discover lesser-known works of the time (by writers such as Benserade, Thomas Corneille, Dufresny and Rotrou). Through comparative and sustained close readings, including a linguistic and speech act approach, a historical survey of texts with an analysis of different versions and a study of irony, the reader is shown the manifest ways in which different playwrights incorporate the comedic tropes of lying and scheming, confusion and unmasking. Drawing particular attention to the levels of communicative or mis-communicative exchanges on the character-to-character axis and the character-to-audience axis, this work examines the process whereby characters in the comedies construct narratives designed to trick, misdirect, dazzle, confuse or exploit their interlocutors. In the different incarnations of seducer, parasite, cross-dresser, duplicitous narrator/messenger and deluded mythomaniac, the author underscores the way in which the figure of the liar both entertains and troubles, making it a fascinating subject worthy of detailed investigation.

Author : Paula McQuade
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107198258

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Catechisms and Women's Writing in Seventeenth-Century England by Paula McQuade Pdf

This monograph is a study of early modern women's literary use of catechizing. It addresses the question of women's literary production in early modern England, demonstrating that the reading and writing of catechisms were crucial sites of women's literary engagements in early modern England.

Author : M. Suzuki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230305502

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The History of British Women's Writing, 1610-1690 by M. Suzuki Pdf

During the seventeenth century, in response to political and social upheavals such as the English Civil Wars, women produced writings in both manuscript and print. This volume represents recent scholarship that has uncovered new texts as well as introduced new paradigms to further our understanding of women's literary history during this period.

Author : Rachel Trubowitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191636479

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Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature by Rachel Trubowitz Pdf

Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature connects changing seventeenth-century English views of maternal nurture to the rise of the modern nation, especially between 1603 and 1675. Maternal nurture gains new prominence in the early modern cultural imagination at the precise moment when England undergoes a major paradigm shift — from the traditional, dynastic body politic, organized by organic bonds, to the post-dynastic, modern nation, comprised of symbolic and affective relations. The book also demonstrates that shifting early modern perspectives on Judeo-Christian relations deeply inform the period's interlocking reassessments of maternal nurture and the nation, especially in the case of Milton. The book's five chapters analyze a wide range of reformed and traditional texts, including A pitiless Mother, William Gouge's Of Domesticall Duties, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Charles I's Eikon Basilike, and Milton's Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes. Equal attention is paid to such early modern visual images as The power of women (a late sixteenth-century Dutch engraving), William Marshall's engraved frontispiece to Richard Braithwaite's The English Gentleman and Gentlewoman (1641), and Peter Paul Rubens's painting of Pero and Cimon or Roman Charity (1630). The book argues that competing early modern figurations of the nurturing mother mediate in politically implicated ways between customary biblical models of English kingship and innovative Hebraic/Puritan paradigms of Englishness.

Author : R. C. Richardson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0719047404

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The Debate on the English Revolution by R. C. Richardson Pdf

This firmly established essential guide to the literature in the field appears here in a much revised third edition. New chapters are included on twentieth-century historians’ treatments of social complexities, politics, political culture and revisionism, and on the Revolution’s unstoppable reverberations. All the other chapters have been amended and recast to take account of recent publications. The book provides a searching re-examination of why the English Revolution remains such a provocatively controversial subject and analyzes the different ways in which historians over the last three centuries have tried to explain its causes, course and consequences. Clarendon, Hume, Macaulay, Gardiner, Tawney, Hill, and the present-day revisionists are given extended treatment, while discussion of the work of numerous other historians is integrated into a coherent, informative and immensely readable survey.

Author : Séverine Genieys-Kirk
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496235244

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Recovering Women's Past by Séverine Genieys-Kirk Pdf

This collection of essays focuses on how women born before the nineteenth century have claimed a place in history and how they have been represented in the collective memory from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century.