Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism

A Transnational Biographical History

Ulrich L. Lehner, Ulrich L. Lehner

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781351344159
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism explores, for the first time, the uncharted territory of women's religious Enlightenment. Each chapter offers a biographical insight into the social and cultural context of female Enlighteners and how Catholic women in Europe used the thought and values of Enlightenment to articulate their beliefs about how to live their faith in the world.

The collection of portraits within this book offers a closer look into the new understanding of womanhood that emerged from Enlightenment culture and was conceived independently from marital relationships. They also highlight the distinctive contributions that women made to political and religious philosophy, spirituality and mysticism, and the efforts to bring scientific knowledge to the attention of other women.

Guiding readers through the complex religious, intellectual and global connections influenced by the Enlightenment, Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism brings the achievements of Enlightenment women to the foreground and restores them to their rightful place in intellectual history. It is ideal reading for scholars and students of Enlightenment history, early modern religion and early modern women's history.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism: Prolegomena
• 1 Piety and Popularity: The Life and Works of FéLicité De Genlis (1746–1830)
• 2 Marie Leprince De Beaumont (1711–1780): A Popular Religious Pedagogue
• 3 AdéLaïDe D’OrléAns (1698–1743): The Abbess of Chelles
• 4 Josefa Amar Y BorbóN (1749–1833): An Intellectual Woman
• 5 MaríA Gertrudis Hore (1742–1801): The Neoclassic Poetry and Enlightenment Thought of A Cloistered Spanish Nun
• 6 MaríA Lorenza De Los RíOs Y Loyo, Marquesa De Fuerte-HíJar: Women’s Writing and Charity in The Spanish Enlightenment
• 7 Teresa De Mello Breyner, Countess of Vimieiro (1739–1798?)
• 8 Faith, Science and the Modern Body: Anna Morandi’s Studies of Human Anatomy in Wax
• 9 the Scientist and the Saint: Laura Bassi’s Enlightened Catholicism
• 10 Maria Eleonora Sporck (1687−1717) and Anna Katharina SwéErts-Sporck (1689−1754): Practitioners and Promoters of the Word At the Edge of the Enlightenment
• 11 Between Nation and Universe: Caroline Pichler’s (1769−1843) Catholicism
• 12 Faith, Education, Renewal: Amalia Von Gallitzin (1748–1806)
• 13 Maria Kunigunde of Saxony (1740–1826): Abbess, Princess and Industrial Pioneer in the Free Secular Women’s College in Essen
• 14 Between Revolutionary Jacobins and English Catholic Cisalpines: the Roles of Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821) in the Age of Enlightenment
• 15 FéNelonian Reform, Catholic Jacobites and Jane Barker’s Enlightenment Dramas of Conscience
• 16 Izabela Czartoryska and Catholic Devotion in the Eighteenth-Century Polish Garden
• Index