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.
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Women in Christianity. |
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Italy. |
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History. |
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Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Congresses.
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Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines. |
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Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Women -- Italy -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- Congresses.
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Women -- Italy -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- Congresses.
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Italy -- Intellectual life -- Congresses.
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Intellectual life. |
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Italy -- Church history -- Congresses.
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Church history. |
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Gender roles. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Added Author |
Matter, E. Ann.
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Coakley, John W. (John Wayland)
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ISBN |
0812232364 acid-free paper |
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