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Title Creative women in medieval and early modern Italy : a religious and artistic renaissance / edited by E. Ann Matter and John Coakley.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1994]
©1994

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 Moore Stacks  BV639.W7 C69 1994  1994    Available  ---
Description xiv, 356 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Note Papers presented at a conference held at the University of Pennsylvania, Sept. 1991.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Introduction : women's creativity in religious context / John Coakley -- The feminine mind in medieval mysticism / Mariateresa Fumagalli Beonio-Brocchieri -- The authorial role of Brother A. in the composition of Angela of Foligno's revelations / Catherine M. Mooney -- Women and the production of religious literature in the vernacular, 1300-1500 / Katherine Gill -- Urban spaces, women's networks, and the lay apostolate in the Siena of Catherine Benincasa / Karen Scott -- Chiara Gambacorta of Pisa as patroness of the arts / Ann M. Roberts -- Piety and patronage : women and the early Jesuits / Carolyn Valone -- Per speculum in enigmate : failed saints, artists, and self-construction of the female body in early modern Italy / Anne Jacobson Schutte -- The commentary on the rule of Clare of Assisi by Maria Domitilla Galluzzi / E. Ann Matter -- The mystic humanism of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566-1607) / Antonio Riccardi -- Ursula and Catherine : the marriage of virgins in the sixteenth century / Gabriella Zarri -- Suor Maria Clemente Ruoti, playwright and academician / Elissa B. Weaver -- The making of Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana's Componimenti Musicali (1623) / Craig A. Monson -- Four views of Milanese nuns' music / Robert L. Kendrick.
Subject Women in Christianity -- Italy -- History -- Congresses.
Women in Christianity.
Italy.
History.
Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Congresses.
Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines.
Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Women -- Italy -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- Congresses.
Women -- Italy -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- Congresses.
Italy -- Intellectual life -- Congresses.
Intellectual life.
Italy -- Church history -- Congresses.
Church history.
Gender roles.
Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Matter, E. Ann.
Coakley, John W. (John Wayland)
ISBN 0812232364 acid-free paper