{"product_id":"embodied-word-nancy-bradley-warren-9780268044206","title":"Embodied Word: Female Spiritualities, Contested Orthodoxies, and English Religious Cultures, 1350-1700","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Embodied Word: Female Spiritualities, Contested Orthodoxies, and English Religious Cultures, 1350-1700\u003c\/i\u003e, Nancy Bradley Warren expands on the topic of female spirituality, first explored in her book \u003ci\u003eWomen of God and Arms\u003c\/i\u003e, to encompass broad issues of religion, gender, and historical periodization. Through her analyses of the variety of ways in which medieval spirituality was deliberately and actively carried forward to the early modern period, Warren underscores both continuities and revisions that challenge conventional distinctions between medieval and early modern culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe early modern writings of Julian of Norwich are an illustrative starting point for Warren's challenge to established views of English religious cultures. In a single chapter, Warren follows the textual and devotional practices of Julian as they influence two English Benedictine nuns in exile, and then Grace Mildmay, a seventeenth-century Protestant gentry woman, \"to shed light on the ways in which individual encounters of the divine, especially gendered bodily encounters expressed textually, signify for others both personally and socio-historically.\" In subsequent chapters, Warren discusses St. Birgitta of Sweden's \u003ci\u003eImitatio Christi\u003c\/i\u003e in the context of the importance of Spain and Spanish women in shaping a distinctive form of early modern Englishness strongly aligned with medieval religious culture; juxtaposes the fifteenth-century mystic Margery Kempe with the life and writings of Anna Trapnel, a seventeenth-century Baptist; and treats Catherine of Siena together with the Protestant Anne Askew and Lollard and Recusant women. In the final chapters she focuses on the interplay of gender and textuality in women's textual representations of themselves and in works written by men who used the traditions of female spirituality in the service of competing orthodoxies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nancy Bradley Warren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0268044201\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268044206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2011","brand":"Nancy Bradley Warren","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47610979516671,"sku":"9780268044206","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2cfde225-f1dd-4467-9508-d8f5a7d7bd5f.jpg?v=1764510923","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/embodied-word-nancy-bradley-warren-9780268044206","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}