From Spiritual Guide to Church Mother: The Performative and Printed Preaching of Two Strasbourg Women
This article compares late medieval and early modern patterns of women’s preaching in Strasbourg. Medieval women circumvented gendered restrictions against female preaching through performative acts of embodied devotion. This article compares the embodied sermons of Gertrude Rickeldey of Ortenburg a...
| Subtitles: | Regendering the Narrative: Women in the History of Christianity |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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| In: |
Church history and religious culture
Year: 2023, Volume: 103, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 239-258 |
| Further subjects: | B
Printing
B MEDIEVAL WOMEN B performative preaching B Preaching B embodied piety B Reformation women B holy household |
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| Summary: | This article compares late medieval and early modern patterns of women’s preaching in Strasbourg. Medieval women circumvented gendered restrictions against female preaching through performative acts of embodied devotion. This article compares the embodied sermons of Gertrude Rickeldey of Ortenburg and the printed sermons of Katharina Schütz Zell to discuss the change and continuity in late medieval and early modern women’s preaching. Using Beverly Kienzle’s definition of the sermon and Roxanne Mountford’s concept of rhetorical space, I identify continuity in both’s women’s conformity to gendered regimes of piety. I also argue that Protestant reform shifted the location of female religious authority from embodied piety to printed sermons, but in a way that reflects a continuity with medieval traditions of female preaching. Overall this article demonstrates how women’s preaching persisted within the theological and cultural changes of the early modern period. |
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| ISSN: | 1871-2428 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Church history and religious culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18712428-10303010 |