Gender and History / Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality

List of Tables .- Acknowledgements .- List of Contributors .- Preface.- Introduction: Gender, Catholicism, Women's Spirituality over the Longue Duree; L.Lux-Sterritt & C.M.Mangion .- Presence and Absence in Thirteenth Century Italy: Reading Clare of Assisi in Franciscan Liturgy and Community; A.Welch .- Marguerite Porete and the Predicament of her Preaching in Fourteenth Century France; R.Lahav .- The Impact of Renaissance Gender-Related Notions on the Female Experience of the Sacred: The Case of Angela Merici's Ursulines; Q.Mazzonis .- Teresa de Jesus's Book and the Reform of the Religious Man in Sixteenth Century Spain; E.Rhodes .- Mary Ward's English Institute and Prescribed Female Roles in the Early Modern Church; L.Lux-Sterritt .- An English Nun's Authority: Early Modern Spiritual Controversy and the Manuscripts of Barbara Constable; J.Lay .- Power in Piety: Inspiration, Ambitions and Strategies of Spiritual Virgins in the Northern Netherlands during the Seventeenth Century; M.Monteiro .- 'Martyrs of England! Standing on High!': Roman Catholic Women's Hymn-writing for the Re-invigoration of the Faith in England, 1850-1900; N.J.Cho .- Expressions of Self-surrender in Nineteenth-Century France: The Case of Therese Couderc (1805-1885); K.Stogdon .- The 'Mixed Life': Challenging Understandings of Religious Life in Victorian England; C.M.Mangion .- Afterword; F.E.Dolan .- Glossary .- Further Reading.- Index.

LAURENCE LUX-STERRITT is Lecturer in British History at the University of Aix-Marseille, France.

CARMEN M. MANGION is Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.