The Embodied Word: Female Spiritualities, Contested Orthodoxies, and English Religious Cultures, 1350-1700

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: From Corpse to Corpus 1 One The Incarnational and the International: St. Birgitta of Sweden, St. Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, and Aemilia Lanyer 19 Two Medieval Legacies and Female Spiritualities across the “Great Divide”: Julian of Norwich, Grace Mildmay, and the English Benedictine Nuns of Cambrai and Paris 61 Three Embodying the “Old Religion” and Transforming the Body Politic: The Brigittine Nuns of Syon, Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza, and Exiled Women Religious during the English Civil War 97 Four Women’s Life Writing, Women’s Bodies, and the Gendered Politics of Faith: Margery Kempe, Anna Trapnel, and Elizabeth Cary 147 Five The Embodied Presence of the Past: Medieval History, Female Spirituality, and Traumatic Textuality, 1570–1700 193 Notes 241 Index 325 ...