This article compares late medieval and early modern patterns of women’s preaching in Strasbourg. Medieval women circumvented gendered restrictions against female preaching through performative acts of embodied devotion. This article compares the embodied sermons of Gertrude Rickeldey of Ortenburg and the printed sermons of Katharina Schütz Zell to discuss the change and continuity in late medieval and early modern women’s preaching. Using Beverly Kienzle’s definition of the sermon and Roxanne Mountford’s concept of rhetorical space, I identify continuity in both’s women’s conformity to gendered regimes of piety. I also argue that Protestant reform shifted the location of female religious authority from embodied piety to printed sermons, but in a way that reflects a continuity with medieval traditions of female preaching. Overall this article demonstrates how women’s preaching persisted within the theological and cultural changes of the early modern period.

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从精神导师到教会母亲

本文比较了斯特拉斯堡中世纪晚期和现代早期妇女的传教模式。中世纪女性通过体现奉献精神的表演行为来规避针对女性传教的性别限制。本文比较了奥滕堡格特鲁德·里克尔迪（Gertrude Rickeldey）的具身讲道和凯瑟琳娜·舒茨·泽尔（Katharina Schütz Zell）的印刷讲道，讨论中世纪晚期和现代早期女性讲道的变化和连续性。使用贝弗利·基恩茨勒（Beverly Kienzle）对布道的定义和罗克珊·蒙特福德（Roxanne Mountford）的修辞空间概念，我确定了两位女性对虔诚的性别制度的顺从的连续性。我还认为，新教改革将女性宗教权威的位置从具体的虔诚转向印刷的布道，但在某种程度上反映了与中世纪女性传教传统的连续性。总的来说，本文展示了女性的传教如何在现代早期的神学和文化变革中持续存在。