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Zusatztext "This path-breaking book explores an original subject: female agency in Enlightenment Catholicism. It shows how the Enlightenment! the history of women and gender! and religious history - subjects which have often been studied in isolation from one another - can be combined to give new insights into the intellectual ferment that took place in the eighteenth century. A team of international historians explores the ways in which individual women in Europe responded to the need to reconcile Enlightenment ideas with their Catholic faith."Marisa Linton! Kingston University! UK"While scholarship both on the Catholic Enlightenment and on women and gender in the eighteenth century has flourished in recent years! the two have rarely been integrated - until now. This lively set of essays from a first-rate group of scholars depicts an array of remarkable women whose intellectual pursuits defied conventional gender expectations! provoking us to rethink the nature of Enlightenment Catholicism and female agency within it. This is a trailblazing volume bound to captivate anyone interested in gender and religion at the threshold of the modern world."Eric Carlsson! University of Wisconsin-Madison! USA Informationen zum Autor Ulrich L. Lehner is William K. Warren Professor at the University of Notre Dame. A member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts! he has received awards and fellowships from the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study! the Notre Dame Institute of Advanced Study! the Earhart Foundation! the German Humboldt Foundation and the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation. He is the award-winning author of several scholarly works on early modern and modern history of religion. Zusammenfassung Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism explores the uncharted territory of women’s religious Enlightenment. Offering biographical insights into the social and cultural context of female Enlighteners it is ideal reading for scholars and students of Enlightenment history, early modern religion, and early modern women’s history. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter 1: Piety and popularity: the life and works of Félicité de Genlis (1746-1830)Carolina Armenteros Chapter 2: Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711-1780): A popular religious pedagogueAlicia C. MontoyaChapter 3: Adélaïde d'Orléans (1698-1743): the Abbess of ChellesTherese Taylor Chapter 4: Josefa Amar y Borbón (1749-1833): an intellectual womanMónica BoluferChapter 5: María Gertrudis Hore (1742-1801): the neoclassic poetry and Enlightenment thought of a cloistered Spanish nunElizabeth Franklin LewisChapter 6: María Lorenza de los Ríos y Loyo! Marquesa de Fuerte-Híjar: women's writing and dharity in the Spanish EnlightenmentCatherine M. JaffeChapter 7: Teresa de Mello Breyner! Countess of Vimieiro (1739-1798?)Raquel Bello and Elias TorresChapter 8: Faith! science and themodern body: Anna Morandi'sstudies of human anatomy in waxRebecca MessbargerChapter 9: The scientist and the saint: Laura Bassi's Enlightened CatholicismPaula FindlenChapter 10: Maria Eleonora Sporck (1687?1717) and Anna Katharina Swéerts-Sporck (1689?1754):practitioners and promoters of the word at the edge of the EnlightenmentVeronika CapskáChapter 11: Between nation and universe: Caroline Pichler's (1769-1843) CatholicismAnke Gilleir Chapter 12: Faith! education! renewal: Amalia von Gallitzin (1748-1806)Andreas OberdorfChapter 13: Maria Kunigunde of Saxony (1740-1826): abbess! princess and industrial pioneer in the Free Secular Women's College in EssenUte Kueppers-BraunChapter 14: Between revolutionary Jacobins and English Catholic Cisalpines: the roles of Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821) in the age of EnlightenmentMichael Tomko Chapter 15: Fénelonian reform! Catholic Jacobites and Jane Barker's Enlightenment dramas of conscienceAnna Battigelli Chapter 16: Izabela Czartoryska and Catholic devotion in the...
