Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century EnglandThis study of radical prophecy in 17th-century England explores the significance of gender for religious visionaries between 1650 and 1700. Phyllis Mack focuses on the Society of Friends, or Quakers, the largest radical sectarian group active during the English Civil War and Interregnum. The meeting records, correspondence, almanacs, autobiographical and religious writings left by the early Quakers enable Mack to present a textured portrait of their evolving spirituality. Parallel sources on men and women provide a unique opportunity to pose theoretical questions about the meaning of gender, such as whether a "women's spirituality" can be identified, or whether religious women are more or less emotional than men. |
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... mother love , sexuality — have no fixed shape , no solidity at all , apart from the cultural values or discourses that both mirror and alter the individual's perception of self . I suspect that many seventeenth - century people would ...
... mother love , sexuality — have no fixed shape , no solidity at all , apart from the cultural values or discourses that both mirror and alter the individual's perception of self . I suspect that many seventeenth - century people would ...
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... mother elsewhere in Europe , and in earlier periods , see Carolyn Walker Bynum , Jesus as Mother : Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1982 ) , 110-69 ; Piero Camporesi , The ...
... mother elsewhere in Europe , and in earlier periods , see Carolyn Walker Bynum , Jesus as Mother : Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1982 ) , 110-69 ; Piero Camporesi , The ...
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... mother . " 30 The sponginess and porosity of the female physiology not only made a woman more emotionally volatile and energetic ; it also meant that she might experience difficulty in separating her powers of rational obser- vation ...
... mother . " 30 The sponginess and porosity of the female physiology not only made a woman more emotionally volatile and energetic ; it also meant that she might experience difficulty in separating her powers of rational obser- vation ...
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... Mother's Point of View , " in Patients and Prac- titioners , ed . Porter , 134 ) . Carol F. Karlsen also stresses the responsibility of all women for duties involving knowledge of healing , herbal medicines , assistance at births , and ...
... Mother's Point of View , " in Patients and Prac- titioners , ed . Porter , 134 ) . Carol F. Karlsen also stresses the responsibility of all women for duties involving knowledge of healing , herbal medicines , assistance at births , and ...
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... mother for meat , ate and digested the food , and delivered her message from the beyond : " O People full of contempt , despising one another , some for riches , some for beauty , others for wisdom , whereas before God , we are all ...
... mother for meat , ate and digested the food , and delivered her message from the beyond : " O People full of contempt , despising one another , some for riches , some for beauty , others for wisdom , whereas before God , we are all ...
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