Women Prophets, Religion, and Travel in Early Modern England and wider Europe, c.1600-1700

本文重新审视了17世纪英国女先知所写文本中的宗教和流动性，以及这些女性和文本本身的身体和智力流动性。通过追踪17世纪英格兰和更广泛的欧洲新教女性跨越地区和国家边界的旅程，本书将研究地理旅行作为预言通过印刷和口头文化传播的关键载体，因为女性先知会前往出版社和公共论坛。通过这样做，它阐明了17世纪中期新教文化中流动性、宗教和文本生产之间的关系所采取的性别形式。

This thesis reconsiders religion and mobility in texts written by women prophets inseventeenth-century England, as well as the physical and intellectual mobility of thesewomen and the texts themselves. Tracking the journeys of Protestant women acrossregional and national borders in seventeenth-century England and wider Europe, it willexamine geographical travel as a crucial vector in the transmission of prophecy via printedand oral culture, as women prophets travelled to publishing houses as well as publicforums. By doing so, it illuminates the gendered forms taken by the relations betweenmobility, religion, and textual production in mid-seventeenth century Protestant cultures.