English women's spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: new kingdoms of womanhood / Alexandra Verini.
Verini, Alexandra.
2022
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Title English women's spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: new kingdoms of womanhood / Alexandra Verini.
Author Verini, Alexandra.
ISBN 9783031009174 (electronic bk.)
3031009177 (electronic bk.)
3031009169
9783031009167
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00917-4
Imprint Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-00917-4 doi
Call Number HX806
Dewey Decimal Classification 321/.07
Summary English Womens Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood uncovers a tradition of womens utopianism that extends back to medieval womens monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More. As enclosed spaces in which women wielded authority that was unavailable to them in the outside world, medieval and early modern convents were self-consciously engaged in reworking pre-existing cultural heritage to project desired proto-feminist futures. The utopianism developed within the English convent percolated outwards to unenclosed women's spiritual communities such as Mary Ward's Institute of the Blessed Virgin and the Ferrar family at Little Gidding. Convent-based utopianism further acted as an unrecognized influence on the first English womens literary utopias by authors such as Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell. Collectively, these female communities forged a mode of utopia that drew on the past to imagine new possibilities for themselves as well as for their larger religious and political communities. Tracking utopianism from the convent to the literary page over a period of 300 years, New Kingdoms writes a new history of medieval and early modern womens intellectual work and expands the concept of utopia itself.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 17, 2022).
Series New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Chapter 1: Mirrors of our Lady: Utopia in the Medieval Convent
Chapter 2: These Most Afflicted Sisters: Old and New Futures in Exiled English Convents
Chapter 3: Not Yet: Aspirational Womens Communities Beyond the Convent
Chapter 4: Convents of Pleasure: English Womens Literary Utopias.

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