Women during the English Reformations Renegotiating Gender and Religious Identity

Catholic or Protestant, recusant or godly rebel, early modern women reinvented their spiritual and gendered spaces during the reformations in religion in England during the sixteenth century and beyond. These essays explore the ways in which some Englishwomen struggled to erase, rewrite, or reimagine their religious and gender identities.

Introduction; Julie A. Chappell 1. "To the Illustrious Queen": Katherine of Aragon and Early Modern Book Dedications; Valerie Schutte 2. 'Rather a Strong and Constant Man': Margaret Pole and the Problem of Women's Independence; Janice Liedl 3. Religious Intent and the Art of Courteous Pleasantry: A Few Letters from Englishwomen to Heinrich Bullinger (1543–1562); Rebecca A. Giselbrecht 4. Elizabeth Cary and Intersections of Catholicism and Gender in Early Modern England; Lisa McClain 5. Eleanor Davies and the New Jerusalem; Amanda L. Capern 6. The Failure of Godly Womanhood: Religious and Gender Identity in the Life of Lady Elizabeth Delaval; Sharon L. Arnoult 7. Haunting History: Women, Catholicism, and the Writing of National History in Sophia Lee's The Recess ; Kaley A. Kramer 8. Stripped of Their Altars: Film, Faith, and Tudor Royal Women from the Silent Era to the Twenty–First Century, 1895–2014; William B. Robison

Sharon L. Arnoult, Midwestern State University, USA Amanda L. Capern, University of Hull, UK Rebecca A. Giselbrecht, University of Zurich, Switzerland Janice Liedl, Laurentian University, Canada Lisa McClain, Boise State University, USA William B. (Bill) Robison, Southeastern Louisiana University, USA Valerie Schutte, Independent Researcher, USA