Acknowledgments
Notes on Quotations, Translations, and Music Examples
1. Introduction: Women, Sacred Songs, and the Catholic Reform
2. Discursive Parameters in Sacred Songs (1600--1650)
3. Mysticism and Jean-Joseph Surin's Cantiques spirituels: The Language of God and the Songs of Paradise
4. François Berthod's Airs de dévotion for Honnêtes Femmes, Novitiates, and Nuns
5. Bertrand de Bacilly: Les Airs Spirituels and Seventeenth-Century Rigorism
6. Bertrand de Bacilly's Airs Spirituels and the Musical Education of Girls
7. Sacred Songs, Pleasure, and the Triumph of Popular Taste
Conclusion: Feminism in Context: An Interpretation
Index