Flesh and Spirit (eBook, ePUB)

An anthology of seventeenth-century women's writing
Redaktion: Adcock, Rachel; Ziomek, Anna; Read, Sara

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ten little-known and under-studied works by seventeenth-century women (edited from manuscript and print) that explore the relationship between spiritual and physical health in the period

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526111005
• Artikelnr.: 48796037

Autorenporträt

Rachel Adcock, Sara Read and Anna Ziomek all teach in the School of Arts, English and Drama at Loughborough University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The dialogue between flesh and spirit 2. Sin and childbirth
3. Signs of the times 4. Conversion and cure 5. Advising on body and
spirit: women's writing 6. Note on the presentation of the texts 7.
Chronology 8. Conversion exemplified 9. Lady Mary Carey, meditations and
poetry (1647-57) 10. Elizabeth Major, honey on the rod (1656) 11. Gertrude
More, the holy practices of a divine lover and the spiritual exercises
(1657) 12. Advising on body and spirit 13. Elizabeth Clinton, the countess
of Lincoln's nursery (1622) 14. Brilliana, Lady Harley, commonplace book
(1622) and letters (1625-43) 15. 'Eliza', Eliza's babes (1652) 16.
Anonymous, conversion exemplified (1663) 17. Conversion and cure 18. Lady
Elizabeth Delaval, meditations and prayers (1662-71) 19. Katherine Sutton,
a christian woman's experiences (1663) 20. Hannah Allen, a narrative of
God's gracious dealings (1683) Bibliography Index