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Dissenting Daughters reveals the vital contribution made by devout women to the spread and practice of the Reformed faith in the Dutch Republic in the 16th and 17th centuries, drawing on the histories of six women: Cornelia Teellinck, Susanna Teellinck, Anna Maria van Schurman, Sara Nevius, Cornelia Leydekker, and Henrica van Hoolwerff.
Table des matières
- Introduction
- 1: Domestic Study, Worship, and Instruction
- 2: Cornelia and Susanna Teellinck
- 3: Anna Maria van Schurman
- 4: Sara Nevius
- 5: Henrica van Hoolwerff and Cornelia Leydekker
- Conclusion
A propos de l'auteur
Amanda C. Pipkin is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received a BA at Wake Forest University, an MA at the University of Leiden, and a PhD from Rutgers University. Her book, Rape in the Republic, 1609-1725: Formulating Dutch Identity (2013), reveals the significance of sex and gender in the construction of Dutch identity. She co-edited with Sarah Moran Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750 (2019), an interdisciplinary volume that reveals vital interconnections among women across the modern political divide of The Netherlands and Belgium.
Résumé
Dissenting Daughters reveals the vital contribution made by devout women to the spread and practice of the Reformed faith in the Dutch Republic in the 16th and 17th centuries, drawing on the histories of six women: Cornelia Teellinck, Susanna Teellinck, Anna Maria van Schurman, Sara Nevius, Cornelia Leydekker, and Henrica van Hoolwerff.
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One hopes that this book will inspire further research into the religious history of women throughout the entire early modern Low Countries.
