Women of God and arms : female spirituality and political conflict, 1380-1600 / Nancy Bradley Warren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warren, Nancy Bradley.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian women--Religious life--Europe--History--To 1500.

Christian women.

Christian women--Political activity--Europe--History--To 1500.

Christian women--Religious life--Europe--History--16th century.

Christian women--Political activity--Europe--History--16th century.

Europe--Church history--600-1500.

Europe.

Europe--Church history--16th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The religious and political spheres of the later medieval and early modern periods were tightly and indisputably interwoven, as illustrated by the papal schism, the Hundred Years War, the Reconquest of Spain, and the English Reformation. In these events as well as in the larger religiopolitical systems in which they unfolded, female saints, devout lay women, and monastic women played central roles. In Women of God and Arms, Nancy Bradley Warren explores the political dimensions of the religious practices of women ranging from St. Colette of Corbie to Isabel of Castile to English nuns exiled during the reign of Elizabeth I.Just as religious and political systems were bound up with one another, so too were the internal and external politics of England and several continental realms. Blood and marriage connected the English dynasties of Lancaster and York with those of France, Burgundy, Flanders, and Castile, creating tangled networks of alliances and animosities. In addition to being linked through ties of kinship, these realms were joined by frequent textual and cultural exchanges. Warren draws upon a wide variety of sources-hagiography, chronicles, monastic records, devotional treatises, military manuals, political propaganda, and texts traditionally designated as literary-as she examines the ways manifestations of female spirituality operated at the intersections of civic, international, and ecclesiastical politics. Her exploration breaches boundaries separating the medieval and the early modern, the religious and the secular, the material and the symbolic, the literary and the historical, as it sheds new light on well-known figures such as Joan of Arc, Isabel of Castile, and Elizabeth I.

Contents:

Monastic politics

Strategic saints and diplomatic devotions

The sword and the cloister

Religion and female rule

The mystic, the monarch, and the persistence of "the medieval"

Dissolution, diaspora, and defining Englishness

Conclusion: The power of the past.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613212245

9781283212243

1283212242

9780812204544

0812204549

OCLC:

759158225