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Queen Hedwig Eleonora and the Arts
Court Culture in Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe
Av Kristoffer Neville, Lisa Skogh
Inbunden, 2016
2578 kr
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As queen consort and dowager, Hedwig Eleonora (1636–1715) held a unique position in Sweden for more than half a century. As the dominant collector and patron of art and architecture in the realm, she left a strong mark on Swedish court culture. Her dynastic network among the Northern European …
Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England
Häftad, 2017
996 kr
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At the intersections of early modern literature and history, Shakespeare and Women's Studies, Midwiving Subjects explores how Shakespearean drama and contemporary medical, religious and popular texts figured the midwife as a central producer of the body's cultural markers. In addition to attending …
Marguerite de Navarre's Shifting Gaze
Perspectives on gender, class, and politics in the Heptaméron
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron, composed in the 1540s and first published posthumously in 1558 and 1559, has long been an interpretive puzzle. De Navarre (1492-1549), sister of King Francis I of France, was a controversial figure in her lifetime. Her evangelical activities and proximity to the …
Women and Shakespeare's Cuckoldry Plays
Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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How does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease …
Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690
Av James Daybell, Andrew Gordon
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690 is the first collection to examine the gendered nature of women’s letter-writing in England and Ireland from the late-fifteenth century through to the Restoration. The essays collected here represent an important body of new work by a …
Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater
Av Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Drawing from early modern plays and treatises on the precepts and practices of the acting process, this study shows how the early modern Spanish actress subscribed to various somatic practices in an effort to prepare for a role. It provides today's reader not only another perspective to the …
Women's Negotiations and Textual Agency in Latin America, 1500-1799
Av Mónica Díaz, Rocío Quispe-Agnoli
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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Even though women have been historically underrepresented in official histories and literary and artistic traditions, their voices and writings can be found in abundance in the many archives of the world where they remain to be uncovered. The present volume seeks to recover women’s voices and …
Marie Madeleine Jodin 1741–1790
Actress, Philosophe and Feminist
Av Felicia Gordon, P.N. Furbank
Inbunden, 2001
2257 kr
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The life story of Marie-Madeleine Jodin opens an exciting new perspective on the world of 18th-century women, European court theatres, and, most strikingly, entails the remarkable discovery of a previously unknown French feminist. In 1790, Jodin, a protégée of Denis Diderot and a former actress, …
Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2005
2879 kr
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The relation between procreation and authorship, between reproduction and publication, has a long history - indeed, that relationship may well be the very foundation of history itself. The essays in this volume bring into focus a remarkably important and complex phase of this long history. In this …
Subordinate Subjects
Gender, the Political Nation, and Literary Form in England, 1588–1688
Inbunden, 2003
3564 kr
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Considering as evidence literary texts, historical documents, and material culture, this interdisciplinary study examines the entry into public political culture of women and apprentices in seventeenth-century England, and their use of discursive and literary forms in advancing an imaginary of …
Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France
Inbunden, 2002
2578 kr
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Focusing on the vastly understudied area of how women participated in the book trades, not just as authors, but also as patrons, copyists, illuminators, publishers, editors and readers, Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France foregrounds contributions made by women during a period of …
Women, Art and the Politics of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Av Melissa Hyde, Jennifer Milam
Inbunden, 2003
2578 kr
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The eighteenth century is recognized as a complex period of dramatic epistemic shifts that would have profound effects on the modern world. Paradoxically, the art of the era continues to be a relatively neglected field within art history. While women's private lives, their involvement with cultural …
Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
Av Allison Levy
Inbunden, 2003
2578 kr
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Whereas recent studies of early modern widowhood by social, economic and cultural historians have called attention to the often ambiguous, yet also often empowering, experience and position of widows within society, Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe is the first book to consider …
Medici Women
Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence
Inbunden, 2003
2818 kr
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The Medici Women is a study of the women of the famous Medici family of Florence in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Natalie Tomas examines critically the changing contribution of the women in the Medici family to the eventual success of the Medici regime and their exercise of power …
Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England
Inbunden, 2003
2879 kr
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At the intersections of early modern literature and history, Shakespeare and Women's Studies, Midwiving Subjects explores how Shakespearean drama and contemporary medical, religious and popular texts figured the midwife as a central producer of the body's cultural markers. In addition to attending …
Women, Texts and Authority in the Early Modern Spanish World
Av Marta V. Vicente, Luis R. Corteguera
Inbunden, 2003
2879 kr
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This is the first essay collection to examine the relation between text and gender in Spain from a broad geographical, social and cultural perspective covering more than 300 years. The contributors examine women and the construction of gender thematically, dealing with the areas of politics, law, …
Ottoman Women Builders
The Architectural Patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan
Inbunden, 2007
2578 kr
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Examined here is the historical figure and architectural patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan, the young mother of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV, who for most of the latter half of the seventeenth century shaped the political and cultural agenda of the Ottoman court. Captured in Russia at the age of …
Musical Voices of Early Modern Women
Many-Headed Melodies
Inbunden, 2005
2578 kr
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Recent scholarship has offered a veritable landslide of studies about early modern women, illuminating them as writers, thinkers, midwives, mothers, in convents, at home, and as rulers. Musical Voices of Early Modern Women adds to the mix of early modern studies a volume that correlates women's …
Marital Economy in Scandinavia and Britain 1400–1900
Av Maria Ågren, Amy Louise Erickson
Häftad, 2005
665 kr
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Marriage today is our prime social and legal institution. Historically, it was also the principal economic institution. This collection of essays offers a wealth of original research into the economic, social and legal history of the marital partnership in northern Europe over a 500-year period. …
Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community
A Literary Study of Political Identities, 1650–1700
Av Catie Gill
Inbunden, 2005
2879 kr
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Focussing on Quaker pamphlet literature of the commonwealth and restoration period, Catie Gill seeks to explore and explain women’s presence as activists, writers, and subjects within the early Quaker movement. Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community draws on contemporary resources such …
Sibling Relations and Gender in the Early Modern World
Sisters, Brothers and Others
Av Naomi J. Miller, Naomi Yavneh
Inbunden, 2006
2504 kr
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While the relationships between parents and children have long been a staple of critical inquiry, bonds between siblings have received far less attention among early modern scholars. Indeed, until now, no single volume has focused specifically on relations between brothers and sisters during the …
Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660
Inbunden, 2006
3643 kr
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Offering an analysis of the ways in which groups of non-aristocratic women circumvented a number of interdictions against female participation in the pamphlet culture of revolutionary England, this book is primarily a study of female agency. Despite the fact that pamphlets, or cheap unbound books, …
Bawdy Politic in Stuart England, 1660–1714
Political Pornography and Prostitution
Inbunden, 2004
2578 kr
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With this original study, Melissa Mowry makes a strong contribution to a provocative interdisciplinary conversation about an important and influential sub genre: seventeenth-century political pornography. This book further advances our understanding of pornography's importance in …
Religious Women in Golden Age Spain
The Permeable Cloister
Inbunden, 2005
2578 kr
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Through an examination of the role of nuns and the place of convents in both the spiritual and social landscape, this book analyzes the interaction of gender, religion and society in late medieval and early modern Spain. Author Elizabeth Lehfeldt here examines the tension between religious reform, …
Masculinity, Anti-Semitism and Early Modern English Literature
From the Satanic to the Effeminate Jew
Inbunden, 2004
2879 kr
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Offering a profound re-assessment of the conceptual, rhetorical, and cultural intersections among sexuality, race and religion in English Renaissance texts, this study argues that antisemitism is a by-product of tensions between received Classical conceptions of masculinity and Christianity's …
Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Inbunden, 2005
2578 kr
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Unlike empresses in Germany and queens in England and France, the lives and political careers of most Iberian queens remain largely unknown to non-specialists. In this collection, Theresa Earenfight brings together new research on medieval and early modern Spanish queens that highlights the …
Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350–1530
Experience, Authority, Resistance
Inbunden, 2005
2578 kr
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Illuminated here are the relationships between visual culture, faith, and gender in the courtly, monastic, and urban spheres of the early modern Burgundian Netherlands. By examining works by artists such as the Master of Mary of Burgundy, Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, and Bernard van Orley, author …
Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England
Av Edith Snook
Inbunden, 2005
2879 kr
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A study of the representation of reading in early modern Englishwomen's writing, this book exists at the intersection of textual criticism and cultural history. It looks at depictions of reading in women's printed devotional works, maternal advice books, poetry, and fiction, as well as manuscripts, …
Women, Space and Utopia 1600–1800
Av Nicole Pohl
Inbunden, 2006
2257 kr
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The first full length study of women's utopian spatial imagination in the seventeenth and eigtheenth centuries, this book explores the sophisticated correlation between identity and social space. The investigation is mainly driven by conceptual questions and thus seeks to link theoretical debates …
Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America
Inbunden, 2006
2879 kr
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Exploring the wealth of writings by early American women in a broad spectrum of genres, Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America presents one of the few synthetic approaches to early US women’s writing. Through an examination of the strategic choices writers made as they constructed their …
