Acknowledgments
Women and Religion in Early Modern Europe: The Historical Context
Chronology
Courses and Modules
I Italian Holy Women of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Teaching Women’s Devotion in Medieval and Early Modern Italy, by Lance Lazar
Reading Sister Bartolomea, by Daniel Bornstein
II Elite Women of the High Renaissance
Teaching Tornabuoni’s Troublesome Women, by Jane Tylus
Antonia Pulci (ca. 1452–1501), the First Published Woman Playwright, by Elissa Weaver
Vittoria Colonna, Sonnets for Michelangelo, by Abigail Brundin
Marguerite de Navarre: Religious Reformist, by Rouben Cholakian
III Women and the Reformation
Marie Dentière: An Outspoken Reformer Enters the French Literary Canon, by Mary McKinley
Reading Jeanne de Jussie’s Short Chronicle with First-Year Students, by Carrie F. Klaus
Teaching Katharina Schütz Zell (1498–1562), by Elsie McKee
IV Holy Women in the Age of the Inquisition
Francisca de los Apóstoles: A Visionary Speaks, by Gillian Ahlgren
“Mute Tongues Beget Understanding”: Recovering the Voice of María de San José, by Alison Weber
Cecilia Ferrazzi and the Pursuit of Sanctity in the Early Modern World, by Elizabeth Horodowich
V Post-Reformation Currents
Convent and Doctrine: Teaching Jacqueline Pascal, by John J. Conley, SJ
Johanna Eleonora Petersen (1644–1724): Pietism and Women’s Autobiography in Seventeenth-Century Germany, by Barbara Becker-Cantarino
Appendix: Approaches to Teaching Presented in the Volume’s Essays
Bibliography
Contributors
Index