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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... speak a new , authentic language . The prayers and prophecies of such a person did not merely echo and distort reality , as ordinary language does , but were themselves reality : " This is not ink and paper , or words ... but it is ...
... speak a new , authentic language . The prayers and prophecies of such a person did not merely echo and distort reality , as ordinary language does , but were themselves reality : " This is not ink and paper , or words ... but it is ...
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... speak at the very altar of the church and before the very doors of Parliament . This was a remarkably creative act , yet it did not liberate women from the constraints of a traditional gendered discourse . As prophets seeking to ...
... speak at the very altar of the church and before the very doors of Parliament . This was a remarkably creative act , yet it did not liberate women from the constraints of a traditional gendered discourse . As prophets seeking to ...
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... speaking as through a trumpet . " " Nineteen years and a half to the Judgment , " intoned the voice , " and you as the meek Virgin . " From that moment until her death twenty - seven years later , Lady Eleanor never looked back.1 Noting ...
... speaking as through a trumpet . " " Nineteen years and a half to the Judgment , " intoned the voice , " and you as the meek Virgin . " From that moment until her death twenty - seven years later , Lady Eleanor never looked back.1 Noting ...
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... speak — women were portrayed as members of a particular class and upholders of cultural values , just as men were . Yet women were also portrayed as liminal creatures inhabiting a no - man's - land of natural and spiritual forces that ...
... speak — women were portrayed as members of a particular class and upholders of cultural values , just as men were . Yet women were also portrayed as liminal creatures inhabiting a no - man's - land of natural and spiritual forces that ...
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... Speaking of cursers , . . . [ an ] English divine said it seemed " as if their throats were Hell itself . " 38 " It is proper , " observed one treatise on wifely duty , " that not only arms but indeed also the speech of women never be ...
... Speaking of cursers , . . . [ an ] English divine said it seemed " as if their throats were Hell itself . " 38 " It is proper , " observed one treatise on wifely duty , " that not only arms but indeed also the speech of women never be ...
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