Women and Faith

Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity to the Present

Edited by Lucetta Scaraffia

Edited by Gabriella Zarri

Translated by Keith Botsford

    Introduction
    Lucetta Scaraffia and Gabriella Zarri
    Translated by Keith Botsford

    Female Asceticism and Monasticism in Italy from the Fourth to the Eighth Centuries
    Franca Ela Consolino
    Translated by Keith Botsford

    Mystical Marriage
    E. Ann Matter
    Translated by Keith Botsford

    Society and Women's Religiosity, 750-1450
    Giulia Barone
    Translated by Keith Botsford

    Women, Faith, and Image in the Late Middle Ages
    Dominique Rigaux
    Translated by Keith Botsford

    From Prophecy to Discipline, 1450-1650
    Gabriella Zarri
    Translated by Keith Botsford

    Spiritual Letters
    Adriano Prosperi
    Translated by Keith Botsford

    The Convent Muses: The Secular Writing of Italian Nuns, 1450-1650
    Elissa B. Weaver

    Little Women, Great Heroines: Simulated and Genuine Female Holiness in Early Modern Italy
    Anne Jacobson Schutte

    Models of Female Sanctity in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy
    Sara F. Matthews Grieco

    From the Late Baroque Mystical Explosion to the Social Apostolate, 1650-1850
    Marina Caffiero
    Translated by Keith Botsford

    Mystical Writing
    Marilena Modica Vasta
    Translated by Keith Botsford

    Female Dynastic Sanctity, 1650-1850
    Sara Cabibbo
    Translated by Keith Botsford

    Sacred Imagery and the Religious Lives of Women, 1650-1850
    Karen-edis Barzman

    "Christianity Has Liberated Her and Placed Her alongside Man in the Family": From 1850 to 1988 (Mulieris Dignitatem)
    Lucetta Scaraffia
    Translated by Keith Botsford

    A Voyage to the Madonna
    Emma Fattorini
    Translated by Keith Botsford

    Sisters and Saints on the Screen
    Giovanna Grignaffini
    Translated by Keith Botsford

    Notes

    Index

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Lucetta Scaraffia is Preceptor in Modern History, University of Rome.

Gabriella Zarri is Professor of Modern History, University of Florence.