Meg Lota Brown is Professor of English at the University of Arizona, Tucson.Kari Boyd McBride is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director in the Women's Studies Department, Faculty Affiliate in the Department of English, and Director of the Group for Early Modern Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

"[T]his book examines the many ways that women shaped and were shaped by the period from 1300 to 1699. Brown and McBride summarize the major ideas held about women in the premodern era and explore the intersection of those ideas with women's everyday lives....The book echoes the pioneering work of Merry Wiesner, Natalie Zemon Davis, and other feminist historians. Recommended. General and undergraduate collections." - Choice

• Series Foreword Acknowledgments Illustrations Timeline Introduction: Women and the Renaissance Women and Education Women under the Law Women and Work Women and Politics Women and Religion Women and Literature Women and the Arts Women and Pleasures Bibliography Index

Meg Lota Brown is Professor of English at the University of Arizona, Tucson.Kari Boyd McBride is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director in the Women's Studies Department, Faculty Affiliate in the Department of English, and Director of the Group for Early Modern Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

"[T]his book examines the many ways that women shaped and were shaped by the period from 1300 to 1699. Brown and McBride summarize the major ideas held about women in the premodern era and explore the intersection of those ideas with women's everyday lives....The book echoes the pioneering work of Merry Wiesner, Natalie Zemon Davis, and other feminist historians. Recommended. General and undergraduate collections." - Choice

• Series Foreword Acknowledgments Illustrations Timeline Introduction: Women and the Renaissance Women and Education Women under the Law Women and Work Women and Politics Women and Religion Women and Literature Women and the Arts Women and Pleasures Bibliography Index

Meg Lota Brown is Professor of English at the University of Arizona, Tucson.Kari Boyd McBride is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director in the Women's Studies Department, Faculty Affiliate in the Department of English, and Director of the Group for Early Modern Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

"[T]his book examines the many ways that women shaped and were shaped by the period from 1300 to 1699. Brown and McBride summarize the major ideas held about women in the premodern era and explore the intersection of those ideas with women's everyday lives....The book echoes the pioneering work of Merry Wiesner, Natalie Zemon Davis, and other feminist historians. Recommended. General and undergraduate collections." - Choice

• Series Foreword Acknowledgments Illustrations Timeline Introduction: Women and the Renaissance Women and Education Women under the Law Women and Work Women and Politics Women and Religion Women and Literature Women and the Arts Women and Pleasures Bibliography Index