Notes on the Contributors

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. List of Illustrations IX
4. Preface and Acknowledgments XIII
5. 1. Introduction: Women's Creativity in Religious Context 1
6. Part I: Women's Religious Expression: Thirteenth to 17 Fifteenth Centuries
7. 2. The Feminine Mind in Medieval Mysticism 19
8. 3. The Authorial Role of Brother A. in the Composition of Angela of Foligno's Revelations 34
9. 4. Women and the Production of Religious Literature in the Vernacular, 1300-1500 64
10. 5. Urban Spaces, Women's Networks, and the Lay Apostolate in the Siena of Catherine Benincasa 105
11. 6. Chiara Gambacorta of Pisa as Patroness of the Arts 120
12. Part II: Women's Religious Expression: Sixteenth and 155 Seventeenth Centuries
13. 7. Piety and Patronage: Women and the Early Jesuits 157
14. 8. Per Speculum in Enigmate: Failed Saints, Artists, and Self-Construction of the Female Body in Early Modern Italy 185
15. 9. The Commentary on the Rule of Clare of Assisi by Maria Domitilla Galluzzi 201
16. 10. The Mystic Humanism of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566-1607) 212
17. 11. Ursula and Catherine: The Marriage of Virgins in the Sixteenth Century 237
18. Part III: Women's Artistic Expression: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
19. 12. Suor Maria Clemente Ruoti, Playwright and Academician 281
20. 13. The Making Of Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana's Componimenti Musicali (1623) 297
21. 14. Four Views of Milanese Nuns' Music 324
22. Notes on the Contributors 343
23. Index of Modern Authors 345
24. General Index 351
25. Backmatter 357