Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England

Phyllis Mack

Published by University of California Press 1992

Visionary Women

Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England

Phyllis Mack

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520915589

Contents

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Author’s Note Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE. Feminine Symbolism and Female Prophecy: Gender and Knowledge in the World Turned Upside Down
CHAPTER ONE. Woman, Nature, and Spirit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
CHAPTER TWO. Male and Female Power: Visionary Women and the Social Order Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
CHAPTER THREE. Talking Back: Women as Prophets during the Civil War and Interregnum, 1640—1655 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
PART TWO. Friends in Eden: Gender and Spirituality in Early Quakerism, 1650—1664
CHAPTER FOUR Ecstasy and Self-Transcendence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
CHAPTER FIVE. Prophecy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
CHAPTER SIX. Ecstasy and Everyday Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
CHAPTER SEVEN. How Were Quakers Radical? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
PART THREE. Visionary Order: Women in the Quaker Movement, 1664-1700
CHAPTER NINE. The Mystical Housewife Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
CHAPTER TEN. Selfhood and Enlightenment: Quaker Preaching and Discipline, 1664-1700 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Epilogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
APPENDIX ONE. Well-Known Women Visionaries of the 1640s and Early 1650s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	425
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Edition: Reprint 2019
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 486

eBook

Published: April 6, 2020
ISBN: 9780520915589