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Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century by Naomi Baker
- Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century
- Naomi Baker
- Page: 320
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9781836391197
- Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
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Overview
The stories of early modern Protestant women, including Rose Thurgood, Anna Trapnel, and Jane Lead, who defied the religious authority of their age. Voices of Thunder illuminates the stories and beliefs of a dozen seventeenth—century radical Protestant women, including a Colchester woman who feared that her four children would starve to death and a former maidservant from Yorkshire who was granted an audience with the sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Their belief in spiritual equality empowered them to resist the status quo, questioning the authority of those who sought to lord it over them. From mostly humble backgrounds, they found ways to make their voices heard, creating some of the earliest autobiographical accounts in English and allowing us a rare and precious glimpse of the lives and experiences of women in the early modern era.