Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism - Hardcover

Kunze

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333593898 ISBN 13: 9780333593899

Publisher: Palgrave Schol, Print UK, 1993

Synopsis

Margaret Fell was a vigorous, outspoken, and authoritative first generation co-leader with George Fox over the first fifty years of Quakerism. The book probes Fell's public and domestic roles, her religious world view, and her practical work as a chief architect of the emerging Quaker church along with Fox. The family, social, economic, and intellectual facets of Fell's life draw out the complexity of gender roles in religious movements in early modern England.

About this title

Synopsis

Margaret Fell was a vigorous, outspoken and authoritative first-generation co-leader with George Fox over the first 50 years of Quakerism. The book probes Fell's public and domestic roles, her religious world view and her practical work as a chief architect of the emerging Quaker Church along with Fox. The family, social, economic and intellectual facets of Fell's life illustrate that the hypothesis of patriarchy as an explanatory model of 17th-century social order is inadequate, for it fails to draw out the complexity of gender roles in religious movements in early-modern England. Bonnelyn Young Kunze is co-editor of "Court, Country and Culture: Essays on Early Modern British History in Honor of Perez Zagorin" and a contributor to the American Historical Association's "Guide to Historical Literature" for European women's history.

About the Author

Bonnelyn Young Kunze is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at LeMoyne College, Syracuse, New York. She was Visiting Assistant Professor in History at Clemson University from 1988 to 1991, and at Colgate Rochester Divinity School in 1991 and 1992.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Schol, Print UK
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0333593898
• ISBN 13: 9780333593899
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 348