This collection of essays explores the role of women and gender in a broad range of 'radical' religious movements of the post-Reformation.

Women Reformers of Early Modern Europe provides an expansive view of women negotiating their faith, voice, and agency in the religious and cultural scene of the

This timely study analyses the seventeenth-century revival of monasticism by English women who founded convents in France and the Low Countries. Examining the n

Devout laywomen raise a number of provocative questions about gender and religion in the early modern world. How did some groups or individuals evade the Triden

This bold and imaginative book marks out a different route towards understanding the body, and its relationship to culture and subjectivity. Amongst other subje