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Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy
A Religious and Artistic Renaissance
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Edited by:
E. Ann Matter
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English
Published/Copyright:
2016
About this book
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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E. Ann Matter is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. John Coakley is L. Russell Feakes Memorial Professor of Church History at New Brunswick Theological Seminary.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Preface and Acknowledgments
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1. Introduction: Women's Creativity in Religious Context
1 - Part I: Women's Religious Expression: Thirteenth to 17 Fifteenth Centuries
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2. The Feminine Mind in Medieval Mysticism
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3. The Authorial Role of Brother A. in the Composition of Angela of Foligno's Revelations
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4. Women and the Production of Religious Literature in the Vernacular, 1300-1500
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5. Urban Spaces, Women's Networks, and the Lay Apostolate in the Siena of Catherine Benincasa
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6. Chiara Gambacorta of Pisa as Patroness of the Arts
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7. Piety and Patronage: Women and the Early Jesuits
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8. Per Speculum in Enigmate: Failed Saints, Artists, and Self-Construction of the Female Body in Early Modern Italy
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9. The Commentary on the Rule of Clare of Assisi by Maria Domitilla Galluzzi
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10. The Mystic Humanism of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566-1607)
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11. Ursula and Catherine: The Marriage of Virgins in the Sixteenth Century
237 - Part III: Women's Artistic Expression: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
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12. Suor Maria Clemente Ruoti, Playwright and Academician
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13. The Making Of Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana's Componimenti Musicali (1623)
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14. Four Views of Milanese Nuns' Music
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Notes on the Contributors
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Index of Modern Authors
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General Index
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Backmatter
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eBook published on:
December 5, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9781512806847
Edition:
Reprint 2016
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376
eBook ISBN:
9781512806847
Keywords for this book
Religion; Fine Art; Women's Studies; Gender Studies; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Religious Studies
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
