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Domesticity and dissent in the seventeenth-century : English women writers and the public sphere /
In Domesticity and Dissent Katharine Gillespie examines writings by seventeenth-century English Puritan women who fought for religious freedom. Seeking the right to preach and prophesy, women such as Katherine Chidley, Anna Trapnel, Elizabeth Poole, and Anne Wentworth envisioned the modern political...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In Domesticity and Dissent Katharine Gillespie examines writings by seventeenth-century English Puritan women who fought for religious freedom. Seeking the right to preach and prophesy, women such as Katherine Chidley, Anna Trapnel, Elizabeth Poole, and Anne Wentworth envisioned the modern political principles of toleration, the separation of Church from state, privacy, and individualism. Gillespie argues that their sermons, prophesies, and petitions illustrate the fact that these liberal theories did not originate only with such well-known male thinkers as John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. Rather. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511187704 051118770X 9780521830638 052183063X 0511185863 9780511185861 0511185030 9780511185038 9780511483585 0511483589 9780511186776 0511186770 9780521120227 0521120225 1107148227 9781107148222 1280457953 9781280457951 0511313748 9780511313745 |