Women and the Reformations: A Global History by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks Hardcover

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A compelling, authoritative history of how women shaped the Reformations and transformed religious life across the globe

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A compelling, authoritative history of how women shaped the Reformations and transformed religious life across the globe The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as stories of men. But women were central to the transformations that took place in Europe and beyond. What was life like for them in this turbulent period? How did their actions and ideas shape Christianity and influence societies around the world? In this rich and definitive study, renowned scholar Merry Wiesner-Hanks explores the history of women and the Reformations in full for the first time. Wiesner-Hanks travels the globe, examining well-known figures like Teresa of Avila, Elizabeth I, and Anne Hutchinson, as well as women whose stories are only now emerging. Along the way, we meet converts in Japan, Spanish nuns in the Philippines, and saints in Ethiopia and America. Wiesner-Hanks explores women's experiences as monarchs, mothers, migrants, martyrs, mystics, and missionaries, revealing that the story of the Reformations is no longer simply European—and that women played a vital role.

Author Biography

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is distinguished professor of history and women's and gender studies emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author or editor of thirty books, including Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, What Is Early Modern History?, Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World, and The Marvelous Hairy Girls.

Review

"With women rather than men standing front and centre . . . [Weisner-Hanks] encourage[s] us to see familiar themes with new eyes."—Peter Marshall, Literary Review"Not a history of 'women in the Reformation': this is a whole history of the Reformation with women at its centre, the people who have been written out of the story for so long put back where they belong. You'll meet hundreds of remarkable women, but your whole sense of the era will also shift on its axis."—Alec Ryrie, author of Protestants"At last, a history of the Reformation and Counter Reformation from the women's point of view! This wonderful and gripping book is packed with amazing stories – from the Quaker Mary Fisher who went from England to Istanbul determined to convert the Sultan, to the Calvinist Ann Marguerite Pete du Noyer who cross-dressed and assured the Catholic who interrogated her that 'I am as much a Catholic as I am a boy', to the exiled Abbess Mary Knatchbull in Ghent who wrote coded letters for Charles I – and escaped suspicion as a mere woman. Wiesner-Hanks has done more than anyone to recreate the lives of women in the religious turmoil of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and this encyclopaedic, astonishing book is the fruit of a lifetime's research. An utterly unforgettable and transformative book."—Lyndal Roper, author of Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet"Vivid portraits, complex dynamics, and a compelling narrative that takes us a wide range encompassing Monarchs, Migrants and Mystics. Wiesner-Hanks portrays women as critical agents reframing religious ideas, communities, and institutions at their core – with conviction, controversy, and global impact."—Nicholas Terpstra, author of Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World"This is a tour de force by the leading historian of premodern women, global history, and the Reformations. Wiesner-Hanks offers a brilliant analysis of women's dynamic participation in a truly global religious phenomenon in a major work that opens up many new avenues for future investigation."—Susan Broomhall, author of The Identities of Catherine de' Medici"This imaginative and artful historical overview places hundreds of distinctive women where they belong in the global religious upheavals of the early modern era—at the center. I can't think of another book that so skillfully balances the dramas of individual lives of truly diverse backgrounds with larger questions of gender, spirituality, and social change.  Merry Wiesner-Hanks is the ideal guide in this journey of discovery."—Joel F. Harrington, author of The Faithful Executioner

Details ISBN0300268238 Author Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks Publisher Yale University Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780300268232 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-10-22 Imprint Yale University Press Subtitle A Global History Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2024-10-22 Illustrations 18 color illus., 7 b-w illus. + 6 maps ISBN-10 0300268238 UK Release Date 2024-10-22 Pages 368 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly DEWEY 940.23 We've got this

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