PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Mary Laven is Reader in Early Modern European History, University of Cambridge, UK. She is the author of Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance Convent, winner of the 2002 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and Mission to China: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit Encounter with the East. Her articles on early modern Italy and Europe, with particular focus on religion, gender and sociability, have appeared in Historical Journal and Renaissance Quarterly. Emily Clark is Clement Chambers Benenson Professor in American Colonial History atTulane University in New Orleans. Her work on women, race, and religion has appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly and in Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834 (Chapel Hill, 2007). Emily Clark, Mary Laven, Patrick Collinson, Robin Briggs, John J. Clune, Emily Clark, Annette Laing, Cathy Skidmore-Hess, Susan O'Brien, Hazel Mills, Timothy J. Lockley.
'This collection ... explores women's responses to religious reformations (and revolutions) along three Atlantic coasts: Europe, Africa, and America. ... Readers researching women's history and spirituality, American studies and religious studies will be interested.' Magistra 'The essays cover a range of topics starting with the familiar in the old world and moving into new territory including Cuba and West Africa concluding with religious revival in the nineteenth century. We see women in a remarkable variety of situations ranging from the extraordinary; danger of ritual execution on the death of their monarch to the more usual; leadership of religious foundations. Several essays demonstrate the value to be obtained from reconsidering the ways historians approach familiar topics.' Recusant History '...the collection is excellent and enjoyable to read.' European History Quarterly
