Beverly Mayne Kienzle is Professor of the Practice in Latin and Romance Languages at Harvard Divinity School, and Pamela J. Walker is Assistant Professor of History at Carleton University.

• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE: AUTHORITY AND DEFINITION Introduction: The Issue of Blood-Reinstating Women into the TraditionLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE: AUTHORITY AND DEFINITION Introduction: The Issue of Blood-Reinstating Women into the TraditionElaine J LawkssPART ONE: EARLY CHRISTIANITY1. Prophetic Power and Women's Authority: The Case of the Gospel of Mary (Magdalene)Karen L. King 2. The Early Christian Orans: An Artistic Representation of Women's Liturgical Prayer and ProphecyKaren Jo Torjesen 3. Maria Magdalena: Apostolorum ApostolaKatherine Ludwig]ansen     PART TWO: THE MIDDLE AGES4. The Prostitute-Preacher: Patterns of Polemic against Medieval Waldensian Women PreachersBeverly Mayne Kienzk 5. The Voice of the Good Women: An Essay on the Pastoral and Sacerdotal Role of Women in the Cathar ChurchAnne Brenon 6. The Right of Women to Give Religious Instruction in the Thirteenth CenturyNicole Beriou 7. Prophecy and Song: Teaching and Preaching by Medieval WomenCarolyn Muessig 8. Proclaiming Sanctity through Proscribed Acts: The Case of Rose of ViterboDarwen Pryds g. Women's Sermons at the End of the Middle Ages: Texts from the Blessed and Images of the SaintsRoberto Rusconi     PART THREE: SIXTEENTH THROUGH EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES10. Feminine Exemplars for Reform: Women's Voices in John Foxe's Acts and MonumentsEdith Wilks Dolnikowski 11. Preaching or Teaching?: Defining the Ursuline Mission in Seventeenth-Century FranceLinda Lierheimer 12. A Voice for Themselves:Women as Participants in Congregational Discourse in the Eighteenth-Century Moravian MovementPeter Vogt 13. In a Female Voice: Preaching and Politics in Eighteenth-Century British QuakerismPhyllis Mack      PART FOUR: NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES14. Spirituality and/as Ideology in Black Women's Literature:The Preaching of Maria W. Stewart and Baby Suggs, HolyJudylyn S. Ryan 15. A Chaste and Fervid Eloquence: Catherine Booth and the Ministry of Women in the Salvation ArmyPamela]. Walker 16. Prophetess of the Spirits: Mother Leaf Anderson and the Black Spiritual Churches of New OrleansYvonne Chireau 17. Transforming the Pulpit: Preaching and Prophecy in the British Women's Suffrage MovementJacqueline R deVries      Afterword: Voices of the Spirit-Exercising Power, Embracing ResponsibilityKaren L. King CONTRIBUTORS INDEX

Beverly Mayne Kienzle is Professor of the Practice in Latin and Romance Languages at Harvard Divinity School, and Pamela J. Walker is Assistant Professor of History at Carleton University.

• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE: AUTHORITY AND DEFINITION Introduction: The Issue of Blood-Reinstating Women into the TraditionLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE: AUTHORITY AND DEFINITION Introduction: The Issue of Blood-Reinstating Women into the TraditionElaine J LawkssPART ONE: EARLY CHRISTIANITY1. Prophetic Power and Women's Authority: The Case of the Gospel of Mary (Magdalene)Karen L. King 2. The Early Christian Orans: An Artistic Representation of Women's Liturgical Prayer and ProphecyKaren Jo Torjesen 3. Maria Magdalena: Apostolorum ApostolaKatherine Ludwig]ansen     PART TWO: THE MIDDLE AGES4. The Prostitute-Preacher: Patterns of Polemic against Medieval Waldensian Women PreachersBeverly Mayne Kienzk 5. The Voice of the Good Women: An Essay on the Pastoral and Sacerdotal Role of Women in the Cathar ChurchAnne Brenon 6. The Right of Women to Give Religious Instruction in the Thirteenth CenturyNicole Beriou 7. Prophecy and Song: Teaching and Preaching by Medieval WomenCarolyn Muessig 8. Proclaiming Sanctity through Proscribed Acts: The Case of Rose of ViterboDarwen Pryds g. Women's Sermons at the End of the Middle Ages: Texts from the Blessed and Images of the SaintsRoberto Rusconi     PART THREE: SIXTEENTH THROUGH EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES10. Feminine Exemplars for Reform: Women's Voices in John Foxe's Acts and MonumentsEdith Wilks Dolnikowski 11. Preaching or Teaching?: Defining the Ursuline Mission in Seventeenth-Century FranceLinda Lierheimer 12. A Voice for Themselves:Women as Participants in Congregational Discourse in the Eighteenth-Century Moravian MovementPeter Vogt 13. In a Female Voice: Preaching and Politics in Eighteenth-Century British QuakerismPhyllis Mack      PART FOUR: NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES14. Spirituality and/as Ideology in Black Women's Literature:The Preaching of Maria W. Stewart and Baby Suggs, HolyJudylyn S. Ryan 15. A Chaste and Fervid Eloquence: Catherine Booth and the Ministry of Women in the Salvation ArmyPamela]. Walker 16. Prophetess of the Spirits: Mother Leaf Anderson and the Black Spiritual Churches of New OrleansYvonne Chireau 17. Transforming the Pulpit: Preaching and Prophecy in the British Women's Suffrage MovementJacqueline R deVries      Afterword: Voices of the Spirit-Exercising Power, Embracing ResponsibilityKaren L. King CONTRIBUTORS INDEX

Beverly Mayne Kienzle is Professor of the Practice in Latin and Romance Languages at Harvard Divinity School, and Pamela J. Walker is Assistant Professor of History at Carleton University.

• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE: AUTHORITY AND DEFINITION Introduction: The Issue of Blood-Reinstating Women into the TraditionLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE: AUTHORITY AND DEFINITION Introduction: The Issue of Blood-Reinstating Women into the TraditionElaine J LawkssPART ONE: EARLY CHRISTIANITY1. Prophetic Power and Women's Authority: The Case of the Gospel of Mary (Magdalene)Karen L. King 2. The Early Christian Orans: An Artistic Representation of Women's Liturgical Prayer and ProphecyKaren Jo Torjesen 3. Maria Magdalena: Apostolorum ApostolaKatherine Ludwig]ansen     PART TWO: THE MIDDLE AGES4. The Prostitute-Preacher: Patterns of Polemic against Medieval Waldensian Women PreachersBeverly Mayne Kienzk 5. The Voice of the Good Women: An Essay on the Pastoral and Sacerdotal Role of Women in the Cathar ChurchAnne Brenon 6. The Right of Women to Give Religious Instruction in the Thirteenth CenturyNicole Beriou 7. Prophecy and Song: Teaching and Preaching by Medieval WomenCarolyn Muessig 8. Proclaiming Sanctity through Proscribed Acts: The Case of Rose of ViterboDarwen Pryds g. Women's Sermons at the End of the Middle Ages: Texts from the Blessed and Images of the SaintsRoberto Rusconi     PART THREE: SIXTEENTH THROUGH EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES10. Feminine Exemplars for Reform: Women's Voices in John Foxe's Acts and MonumentsEdith Wilks Dolnikowski 11. Preaching or Teaching?: Defining the Ursuline Mission in Seventeenth-Century FranceLinda Lierheimer 12. A Voice for Themselves:Women as Participants in Congregational Discourse in the Eighteenth-Century Moravian MovementPeter Vogt 13. In a Female Voice: Preaching and Politics in Eighteenth-Century British QuakerismPhyllis Mack      PART FOUR: NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES14. Spirituality and/as Ideology in Black Women's Literature:The Preaching of Maria W. Stewart and Baby Suggs, HolyJudylyn S. Ryan 15. A Chaste and Fervid Eloquence: Catherine Booth and the Ministry of Women in the Salvation ArmyPamela]. Walker 16. Prophetess of the Spirits: Mother Leaf Anderson and the Black Spiritual Churches of New OrleansYvonne Chireau 17. Transforming the Pulpit: Preaching and Prophecy in the British Women's Suffrage MovementJacqueline R deVries      Afterword: Voices of the Spirit-Exercising Power, Embracing ResponsibilityKaren L. King CONTRIBUTORS INDEX