LEADER 03992nam 22007335 450 001 9910574851503321 005 20230810175048.0 010 $a3-031-00917-7 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-00917-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7013201 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7013201 035 $a(CKB)23524790800041 035 $aEBL7013201 035 $a(AU-PeEL)EBL7013201 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-00917-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)9923524790800041 100 $a20220606d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEnglish Women?s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700 $eNew Kingdoms of Womanhood /$fby Alexandra Verini 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (230 pages) 225 1 $aThe New Middle Ages,$x2945-5944 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$aPrint version: Verini, Alexandra English Women's Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700 Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031009167 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $aEnglish Women?s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood uncovers a tradition of women?s utopianism that extends back to medieval women?s monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More. As enclosed spaces in which women wielded authority that was unavailable to them in the outside world, medieval and early modern convents were self-consciously engaged in reworking pre-existing cultural heritage to project desired proto-feminist futures. The utopianism developed within the English convent percolated outwards to unenclosed women's spiritual communities such as Mary Ward's Institute of the Blessed Virgin and the Ferrar family at Little Gidding. Convent-based utopianism further acted as an unrecognized influence on the first English women?s literary utopias by authors such as Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell. Collectively, these female communities forged a mode of utopia that drew on the past to imagine new possibilities for themselves as well as for their larger religious and political communities. Tracking utopianism from the convent to the literary page over a period of 300 years, New Kingdoms writes a new history of medieval and early modern women?s intellectual work and expands the concept of utopia itself. 410 0$aThe New Middle Ages,$x2945-5944 606 $aLiterature, Medieval 606 $aEurope$xHistory$x476-1492 606 $aPhilosophy, Medieval 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aFeminism and literature 606 $aFeminist theology 606 $aMedieval Literature 606 $aHistory of Medieval Europe 606 $aMedieval Philosophy 606 $aFeminist Literary Theory 606 $aFeminist Theology 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval. 615 0$aEurope$xHistory$x476-1492. 615 0$aPhilosophy, Medieval. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aFeminism and literature. 615 0$aFeminist theology. 615 14$aMedieval Literature. 615 24$aHistory of Medieval Europe. 615 24$aMedieval Philosophy. 615 24$aFeminist Literary Theory. 615 24$aFeminist Theology. 676 $a321.07 676 $a940.902 700 $aVerini$b Alexandra$01241169 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910574851503321 996 $aEnglish Women's Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700$92879312 997 $aUNINA