Teaching Other Voices : Women And Religion in Early Modern Europe

Acknowledgments vii Women and Religion in Early Modern Europe: The Historical Context 1 Chronology 23 Courses and Modules 25 I Italian Holy Women of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries 29 Teaching Women's Devotion in Medieval and Early Modern Italy, by Lance Lazar 31 Reading Sister Bartolomea, by Daniel Bornstein 44 II Elite Women of the High Renaissance 53 Teaching Tornabuoni's Troublesome Women, by lane Tylus 55 Antonia Pulci (ca. 1452-1501), the First Published Woman Playwright, by Elissa Weaver 75 Vittoria Colonna, Sonnets for Michelangelo, by Abigail Brundin 86 Marguerite de Navarre: Religious Reformist, by Rouben Cholakian 98 III Women and the Reformation 111 Marie Dentiere: An Outspoken Reformer Enters the French Literary Canon, by Mary McKinley 113 Reading Jeanne de Jussie's Short Chronicle with First-Year Students, by Carrie F. Klaus 127 Teaching Katharina Schutz Zell (1498-1562), by Elsie McKee 137 IV Holy Women in the Age of the Inquisition 155 Francisca de los Ap stoles: A Visionary Speaks, by Gillian T.W. Ahlgren 157 "Mute Tongues Beget Understanding": Recovering the Voice of Maria de San Jos by Alison Weber 167 Cecilia Ferrazzi and the Pursuit of Sancitity in the Early Modern World, by Elizabeth Horodowich 176 V Post-Reformation Currents 183 Convent and Doctrine: Teaching Jacqueline Pascal, by John J. Conley, SJ 185 Johanna Eleonora Petersen (1644-1724): Pietism and Women's Autobiography in Seventeenth-Century Germany, by Barbara Becker-Cantarino 193 Appendix: Approaches to Teaching Presented in the Volume 203 Bibliography 217 Contributors 235 Index 239