03992nam 22007335 450 991057485150332120230810175048.03-031-00917-710.1007/978-3-031-00917-4(MiAaPQ)EBC7013201(Au-PeEL)EBL7013201(CKB)23524790800041EBL7013201(AU-PeEL)EBL7013201(DE-He213)978-3-031-00917-4(EXLCZ)992352479080004120220606d2022 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEnglish Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700 New Kingdoms of Womanhood /by Alexandra Verini1st ed. 2022.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2022.1 online resource (230 pages)The New Middle Ages,2945-5944Description based upon print version of record.Print version: Verini, Alexandra English Women's Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700 Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031009167 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 Women’s Communities Beyond the Convent -- Chapter 4: Convents of Pleasure: English Women’s Literary Utopias.English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood uncovers a tradition of women’s utopianism that extends back to medieval women’s 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 women’s 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 women’s intellectual work and expands the concept of utopia itself.The New Middle Ages,2945-5944Literature, MedievalEuropeHistory476-1492Philosophy, MedievalLiteraturePhilosophyFeminism and literatureFeminist theologyMedieval LiteratureHistory of Medieval EuropeMedieval PhilosophyFeminist Literary TheoryFeminist TheologyLiterature, Medieval.EuropeHistory476-1492.Philosophy, Medieval.LiteraturePhilosophy.Feminism and literature.Feminist theology.Medieval Literature.History of Medieval Europe.Medieval Philosophy.Feminist Literary Theory.Feminist Theology.321.07940.902Verini Alexandra1241169MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910574851503321English Women's Spiritual Utopias, 1400-17002879312UNINA