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...
The religious and political spheres of the later medieval and early modern periods were tightly and indisputably interwoven, as illustrated by the pap...
In" ""The Embodied Word: Female Spiritualities, Contested Orthodoxies, and English Religious Cultures, 1350-1700," Nancy Bradley Warren expands on the topic of female spirituality, first explored in her book "Women of God and Arms," to encompass broad issues of religion, gender, and historical periodization. Through her analyses of the variety of ways in which medieval spirituality was deliberately and actively carried forward to the early modern period, Warren underscores both continuities and revisions that challenge conventional distinctions between medieval and early modern...
In" ""The Embodied Word: Female Spiritualities, Contested Orthodoxies, and English Religious Cultures, 1350-1700," Nancy Bradley Warren expands on ...
