Women during the English Reformations: Renegotiating Gender and Religious Identity

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