Embodiment, Identity, and Gender in the Early Modern Age

Amy E. Leonard (Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University) focuses on women, gender, and sexuality in Reformation Germany. She is the author of Nails in the Wall: Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germany. She is currently working on a book that compares and contrasts changing views of female sexuality during the Reformations. David M. Whitford (Professor of Reformation Studies at Baylor University) is a senior editor of The Sixteenth Century Journal. He is the author of A Reformation Life and The Curse of Ham in Early Modern Europe. He is currently working on the construction of masculinity during the Reformations.

Introduction The body and manifestations of gender 1. The strange survival of the bleeding corpse 2. Martin Luther and the Reformation of virginity 3. Martin Luthers gendered reflections on Eve 4. A "Prodigal son" remembers John of the cross 5. Women, conflict, and peacemaking in German villages 6. James I and unruly women Women between reform, subversion, and self-determination 7. Protestant and Catholic nuns confronting the Reformation 8. Female religious communities during the Thirty Years War 9. Conflicts between male reformers and female monastics 10. Anna Maria van Schurman: poetry as exegesis 11. Sacral systems: the challenge of change 12. Catholic women in the Dutch Golden Age 13. Women and religious expression in Calvins Geneva Gendered dynamics of displacement, migration, and conflict 14. Women, gender, and religious refugees 15. Refugee wives, widows, and mothers 16. Did the Jesuits introduce "Global Studies"? 17. Devotion at sea: ship voyages and Jesuit masculinity 18. Spanish women, work, and the early modern Atlantic economy