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Women at the Early Modern Swedish Court
Power, Risk, and Opportunity
Häftad, 2025
729 kr
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What was possible for a woman to achieve at an early modern court? By analysing the experiences of a wide range of women at the court of Sweden, this book demonstrates the opportunities open to women who served at, and interacted with, the court; the complexities of women's agency in a court …
Abduction, Marriage, and Consent in the Late Medieval Low Countries
Häftad, 2025
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The Middle Dutch term schaec referred to abduction with marital intent. This book explores this phenomenon to understand wider attitudes towards marriage-making in the fifteenth-century Low Countries. Whilst exchanging words of consent was all that was required legally, making marriage was a social …
Authorizing Early Modern European Women
From Biography to Biofiction
Av James Fitzmaurice, Naomi Miller m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
814 kr
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The essays in this volume analyze strategies adopted by contemporary novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, and biographers interested in bringing the stories of early modern women to modern audiences. It also pays attention to the historical women creators themselves, who, be they saints or …
Catholic Social Networks in Early Modern England
Kinship, Gender, and Coexistence
Häftad, 2025
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Catholic Social Networks in Early Modern England: Kinship, Gender, and Coexistence explores the lived experience of Catholic women and men in the post-Reformation century. Set against the background of the gendered dynamics of English society, this book demonstrates that English Catholics were …
Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity
Häftad, 2025
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Examining women’s agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women’s Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider women’s agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both increasing …
Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Early Modern Spain
From Amadís de Gaula to Don Quixote
Häftad, 2025
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The Iberian chivalric romance has long been thought of as an archaic, masculine genre and its popularity as an aberration in European literary history. Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Early Modern Spain contests this view, arguing that the surprisingly egalitarian gender politics of …
Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic
Av Emily Colbert Cairns, Nieves Romero-Diaz
Häftad, 2025
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Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic is the first volume to emphasize women’s personal experiences and their life trajectories as mothers within the Peninsula and across the Atlantic. Although an official discourse that defined the conditions of motherhood emerged in the eighteenth …
English Aristocratic Women and the Fabric of Piety, 1450-1550
Häftad, 2025
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The role played by women in the evolution of religious art and architecture has been largely neglected. This study of upper-class women in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries corrects that oversight, uncovering the active role they undertook in choosing designs, materials, and locations for …
Fictions of Containment in the Spanish Female Picaresque
Architectural Space and Prostitution in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Häftad, 2025
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This study examines the interdependence of gender, sexuality and space in the early modern period, which saw the inception of architecture as a discipline and gave rise to the first custodial institutions for women, including convents for reformed prostitutes. Meanwhile, conduct manuals established …
Gender and Family Networks in Early Modern Italy
Av Megan Moran
Häftad, 2026
729 kr
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Women from the Ricasoli and Spinelli families formed a wide variety of social networks within and beyond Florence through their letters as they negotiated interpersonal relationships and lineage concerns to actively contribute to their families in early modern Italy. Women were located at the …
Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World
Häftad, 2025
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Is time gendered? This international, interdisciplinary anthology studies the early modern era to analyse how material objects express, shape, complicate, and extend human concepts of time and how people commemorate time differently. It examines conceptual aspects of time, such as the categories …
Genevra Sforza and the Bentivoglio
Family, Politics, Gender and Reputation in (and beyond) Renaissance Bologna
Häftad, 2025
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Genevra Sforza (ca. 1441-1507) lived her long life near the apex of Italian Renaissance society as wife of two successive de facto rulers of Bologna: Sante Bentivoglio then Giovanni II Bentivoglio. Placed there twice without a dowry by Duke Francesco Sforza as part of a larger Milanese plan, …
Gifting Translation in Early Modern England
Women Writers and the Politics of Authorship
Häftad, 2025
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Translation was a critical mode of discourse for early modern writers. Gifting Translation in Early Modern England: Women Writers and the Politics of Authorship examines the intersection of translation and the culture of gift-giving in early modern England, arguing that this intersection allowed …
Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England
Häftad, 2025
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Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England explores one of society's darkest crimes using archival sources and discussing its representation in the drama, pamphlets and broadside ballads of the early modern period. It takes the reader on a journey through the streets and taverns where street …
Men's Sexual Health in Early Modern England
Häftad, 2025
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How did men cope with sexual health issues in early modern England? This vivid history investigates how sexual, reproductive, and genitourinary conditions were understood between 1580 and 1740. Drawing on medical sources and personal testimonies, it reveals how men responded to bouts of ill health …
Missionary Men in the Early Modern World
German Jesuits and Pacific Journeys
Häftad, 2025
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How did gender shape the expanding Jesuit enterprise in the early modern world? What did it take to become a missionary man? And how did missionary masculinity align itself with the European colonial project? This book highlights the central importance of male affective ties and masculine mimesis …
Negotiating Feminism and Faith in the Lives and Works of Late Medieval and Early Modern Women
Av Holly Faith Nelson, Adrea Johnson
Häftad, 2025
814 kr
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This wide-ranging transnational collection theorizes how late medieval and early modern Western women critically and creatively negotiated their faith and feminism, taking into account intersecting factors such as class, culture, confessional stance, institutional affiliation, ethnicity, …
Non-Elite Women's Networks Across the Early Modern World
Av Elizabeth Storr Cohen, Marlee J. Couling
Häftad, 2025
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Non-elite or marginalized early modern women—among them the poor, migrants, members of religious or ethnic minorities, abused or abandoned wives, servants, and sex workers—have seldom left records of their experiences. Drawing on a variety of sources, including trial records, administrative …
Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy
Häftad, 2025
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This book is a new history of early modern gender, told through the lyric poetry of Renaissance Italy. In the evolution of Western gender roles, the Italian Renaissance was a watershed moment, when a confluence of cultural developments disrupted centuries of Aristotelian, binary thinking. Men and …
Fame of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Posthumous Fashioning in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Häftad, 2025
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The Fame of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz traces the meteoric trajectory of the Mexican Tenth Muse’s renown and studies how her worldly celebrity was altered posthumously by elegists in her Fama y obras póstumas [Fame and Posthumous Works] of 1700. In this study of a polyphonic, transatlantic volume, …
Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture
From Mary Sidney to Aphra Behn
Av Gary Waller
Häftad, 2025
814 kr
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The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture is a contribution to the revival of early modern women's writings and cultural production in English that began in the 1980s. Its originality is twofold: it links women's writing in English with the wider context of Baroque culture, and it …
Reputation of Edward II, 1305-1697
A Literary Transformation of History
Av Kit Heyam
Häftad, 2025
814 kr
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During his lifetime and the four centuries following his death, King Edward II (1307-1327) acquired a reputation for having engaged in sexual and romantic relationships with his male favourites, and having been murdered by penetration with a red-hot spit. This book provides the first account of how …
Youth of Early Modern Women
Av Elizabeth Storr Cohen, Margaret Louise Reeves
Häftad, 2025
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Through fifteen essays that work from a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a youth. European culture recognised that, between childhood and full adulthood, early modern women experienced distinctive physiological, …
Vittoria Colonna
Poetry, Religion, Art, Impact
Av Virginia Cox, Shannon McHugh
Häftad, 2025
814 kr
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This edited collection presents fresh and original work on Vittoria Colonna, perhaps the outstanding female figure of the Italian Renaissance, a leading Petrarchist poet, and an important figure in the Italian Reform movement. Until recently best known for her close spiritual friendship with …
Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage
Av Katja Pilhuj
Häftad, 2025
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In a late 1590s atlas proof from cartographer John Speed, Queen Elizabeth appears, crowned and brandishing a ruler as the map's scale-of-miles. Not just a map key, the queen's depiction here presents her as a powerful arbiter of measurement in her kingdom. For Speed, the queen was a formidable …
Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563
Häftad, 2025
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Women and Power at the French Court, 1483—1563 explores the ways in which a range of women as consorts, regents, mistresses, factional power players, attendants at court, or as objects of courtly patronage wielded power in order to advance individual, familial, and factional agendas at the early …
Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe
Häftad, 2025
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Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe examines the lives of women whose gender impeded the exercise of their personal, political, and religious agency, with an emphasis on the conflict that occurred when they crossed the edges society placed on their gender. Many of the women featured in this …
Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform
The Disciples of Teresa de Avila
Häftad, 2025
708 kr
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The sixteenth century was a period of crisis in the Catholic Church. Monastic reorganization was a major issue, and women were at the forefront of charting new directions in convent policy. The story of the Carmelite Reform has been told before, but never from the perspective of the women on the …
Women’s Stories in Le Mercure Galant (1672-1710)
Feminine Fictions in an Early French Periodical
Häftad, 2025
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What do women want to read? Jean Donneau de Visé, the founder and editor in chief of Le Mercure Galant, one of France’s first newspapers, was arguably the first journalist to ask this question and to recognize and capitalize upon the influence of female readers and their social networks. By …
Negotiating Feminism and Faith in the Lives and Works of Late Medieval and Early Modern Women
Av Holly Faith Nelson, Adrea Johnson
Inbunden, 2024
2758 kr
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This wide-ranging transnational collection theorizes how late medieval and early modern Western women critically and creatively negotiated their faith and feminism, taking into account intersecting factors such as class, culture, confessional stance, institutional affiliation, ethnicity, …
