Embracing a multiconfessional and transnational approach that stretches from central Europe, to Scotland and England, from Iberia to Africa and Asia, this volume explores the lives, work, and experiences of women and men during the tumultuous fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.

Introduction The body and manifestations of gender 1. The strange survival of the bleeding corpse 2. Martin Luther and the Reformation of virginity 3. Martin Luther's gendered reflections on Eve 4. A "Prodigal son" remembers John of the cross 5. Women, conflict, and peacemaking in German villages 6. James I and unruly women Women between reform, subversion, and self-determination 7. Protestant and Catholic nuns confronting the Reformation 8. Female religious communities during the Thirty Years' War 9. Conflicts between male reformers and female monastics 10. Anna Maria van Schurman: poetry as exegesis 11. Sacral systems: the challenge of change 12. Catholic women in the Dutch Golden Age 13. Women and religious expression in Calvin's Geneva Gendered dynamics of displacement, migration, and conflict 14. Women, gender, and religious refugees 15. Refugee wives, widows, and mothers 16. Did the Jesuits introduce "Global Studies"? 17. Devotion at sea: ship voyages and Jesuit masculinity 18. Spanish women, work, and the early modern Atlantic economy