Introduction

Perspectives on Women’s Religious Activities in Early Modern Europe and the Americas

Bibliographic Data

ID12622440
AuthorsLiise Lehtsalu (0000-0002-6894-3377, University of East Anglia, corresponding author), Sarah Joan Moran (Utrecht University), Sarah Moran (0009-0002-0019-4979, Utrecht University), Silvia Evangelisti (University of East Anglia)
Year2018
Volume22
Issue1-2
Pages1-7
Publication date2018-03-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Early Modern History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1385-3783 • E-ISSN: 1570-0658
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/15700658-17-00009
OpenAlexW2795195386
LanguageEN
References cited6

Proposing activity as a useful category of analysis, this special issue considers Catholic and Protestant women in Europe and the Americas in the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. We examine women in religious communities, which include both monastic communities as well as confessional communities. A close analysis of the social, economic, and cultural actions of these women religious challenges historiographical assumptions about monastic cloister and domestic space in the early modern period. In fact, we revisit monastic and domestic spaces to reveal them as stages for previously unexamined activity. This cross-denominational and transnational special issue highlights new spheres of women’s religious activity and raises new questions for the study of early modern women’s lives and their capacity to act in early modern society, economy, and culture

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Cloister · Confessional · Early Modern Europe · Early modern period · Historiography · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Religious life · Sociology · Early Modern Women Writers · Gender Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies

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