Theodora Wilkin’s Wandering Soul: Spiritual Adaptation in an Anglo-Dutch Context
Abstract Sometime in the early eighteenth century, an Anglo-Dutch woman named Theodora Wilkin began translating into English an important Mennonite devotional work, Jan Philipsz Schabaelje’s Wandelende Ziele met Adam, Noach, en Simon Cleophas . Her translation (or, better, adaptation) survives in a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Church history and religious culture
Year: 2021, Volume: 101, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 357-375 |
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translations and adaptations
B Mennonite literature B Anglo-Dutch literature B Jan Philipsz Schabaelje B early modern women’s literature B Theodora Wilkin |
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| Summary: | Abstract Sometime in the early eighteenth century, an Anglo-Dutch woman named Theodora Wilkin began translating into English an important Mennonite devotional work, Jan Philipsz Schabaelje’s Wandelende Ziele met Adam, Noach, en Simon Cleophas . Her translation (or, better, adaptation) survives in a manuscript of about one thousand pages. Wilkin’s text sheds considerable light on the state of intellectual history and literary adaptation in the early eighteenth century. Specifically, Theodora Wilkin’s Wandering Soul foregrounds three concerns. 1) It demonstrates the centrality of women to providential history. 2) It reconciles biblical wisdom and natural philosophical knowledge. 3) It closely considers the Ancients, both insofar as they reflected divine truth and promulgated idolatry. |
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| ISSN: | 1871-2428 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Church history and religious culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18712428-bja10029 |