Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England - Couverture souple

Mack, Phyllis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520089375 ISBN 13 : 9780520089372

Editeur : University of California Press, 1995

Synopsis

This study of radical prophecy in 17th-century England explores the signficance 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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Phyllis Mack, Professor of History at Rutgers University, is the author of Calvinist Preaching and Iconoclasm in the Netherlands, 1544 - 1569.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520089375
• ISBN 13: 9780520089372
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 488
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