Protestantism, Politics, and Women in Britain, 1660-1714

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-45410-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 239 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 327 g

Reihe: Early Modern History: Society and Culture

This compelling new study examines the intersection between women, religion and politics in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century in Britain. It demonstrates that what inspired Dissenting and Anglican women to political action was their concern for the survival of the Protestant religion both at home and abroad.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zook, Melinda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction: Nursing Mothers and Sanctified Sisters: Women's Political Behavior after the Restoration 1. Nursing Mothers: Dissenting Women and Opposition Politics 2. A Dangerous Woman: Mary Speke, her Family and the Puritan Gentry 3. Sanctified Sisters: Aphra Behn and the Culture of Nonconformity 4. An Incomparable Queen: Mary II, the Protestant International, and the Church of England 5. Devoted Daughters of the Church: Elizabeth Burnet and Mary Astell Conclusion: Stuart Women and Political Culture Appendix A: Poems on the Death of Queen Mary Appendix B: Sermons on the Death of Queen Mary Appendix C: Elizabeth Burnet's Recommended Reading List Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Melinda S. Zook is Associate Professor of History at Purdue University, USA, and the author of Radical Whigs and Conspiratorial Politics in Late Stuart England (1999). She also co-edited Revolutionary Currents: Nation-Building in the Transatlantic World (2004) and the forthcoming, Challenging Orthodoxies: Social and Cultural Worlds of Early Modern Women (2014).