Secretaries of God: Women Prophets in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

by Diane Watt

Book Overview

A history of women prophets from medieval saints to radical Protestants.

Diane Watt sets aside the conventional hiatus between the medieval and early modern periods in her study of women's prophecy, following the female experience from medieval sainthood to radical Protestantism. The English women prophets and visionaries whose voices are recovered here all lived between the twelfth and the seventeenth centuries and claimed, through the medium...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859916146
• ISBN13: 9780859916141
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"