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Learning And Literacy In Female Hands, 1520-1698

by Elizabeth Mazzola

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 Focusing on the unusual learning and schooling of women in early modern England, this study explores how and why women wrote, the myriad forms their alphabets could assume, and the shape which vernacular literacy acquired in their hands. Mazzola argues that early modern women's writings were designed to conceal rather than reveal women's learning a
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Art, Gender And Religious Devotion In Grand Ducal Tuscany

by Alice E. Sanger

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 Positing Medici womenâ€™s patronage as a network of devotional, entrepreneurial and cultural activities that depended on seeing and being seen, Alice Sanger focuses on the intersection of the visual and the sacred at the Medici court of the later sixteenth to early seventeenth centuries. By examining the religious dimensions of the Medici grand duche
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Guardianship, Gender, And The Nobility In Early Modern Spain

by Grace E. Coolidge

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 Contrary to early modern patriarchal assumptions, this study argues that noblemen in early modern Spain depended on the active collaboration of noblewomen to maintain and expand their authority, wealth, and influence. Drawing on a variety of archival documents from Toledo, Grace Coolidge examines in detail the legal status of these women, their rol
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Baptist Womenâ€™S Writings In Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680

by Rachel Adcock

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 Baptist Womenâ€™s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 explores how female Baptists played a crucial role in the groupâ€™s formation and growth during the 1640s and 50s by contributing to Baptist theology and politics, and evangelising their followers. Adcock considers and analyses writings by little-studied Baptist as well as separatist women
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Maternity And Romance Narratives In Early Modern England

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 Though recent scholarship has focused on both maternity and romance literature in early modern England, this is the first full-length scholarly volume to address the notable intersections between the two topics. Scrutinizing romance narratives in various forms, the collection explores motherhood as it was figured in the fantasy world of romance by
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Rethinking Gaspara Stampa In The Canon Of Renaissance Poetry

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 Despite the status of Gaspara Stampa (1523?-1554) as one of the greatest and most creative poets and musicians of the Italian Renaissance, scholarship on Stampa has been surprisingly scarce and unsystematic. In this volume, scholars from various disciplines employ contrasting methodologies to explore different aspects of Stampaâ€™s work. The volume p
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Gender, Sexuality, And Material Objects In English Renaissance Verse

by Pamela S. Hammons

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 An important contribution to recent critical discussions about gender, sexuality, and material culture in Renaissance England, this study analyzes female- and male-authored lyrics to illuminate how gender and sexuality inflected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets' conceptualization of relations among people and things, human and non-human sub
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A Rulerâ€™S Consort In Early Modern Germany - Aemilia Juliana Of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

by Judith P. Aikin

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 In exploring the exceptionally well-documented activities of Aemilia Juliana of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1637-1706), this study confirms and expands on recent attempts to characterize the roles played by the wives of rulers in the many small principalities of early modern Germany. Judith Aikin analyzes a wide range of texts and cultural artifacts in
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The Senses In Religious Communities, 1600-1800 - Early Modern Â€˜Convents Of Pleasureâ€™

by Nicky Hallett

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 Offering a comprehensive analysis of newly-uncovered manuscripts from two English convents near Antwerp, this study gives unprecedented insight into the role of the senses in enclosed religious communities during the period 1600-1800. It draws on a range of previously unpublished writings - chronicles, confessions, letters, poetry, personal testimo
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The Dynamics Of Gender In Early Modern France - Women Writ, Women Writing

by Domna C. Stanton

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 The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France adds a new dimension to the field of early modern French literary and cultural studies by incorporating dynamic, shifting notions of gender and engaging with contemporary critical theory in an effort to gauge the specifics of textual conformity and resistance to norms. This book emphasizes the central i
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Isabella D'Este And Francesco Gonzaga - Power Sharing At The Italian Renaissance Court

by Sarah D.P. Cockram

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 In this first full length scholarly study of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, Sarah Cockram casts new light on a long misunderstood relationship and shows the couple's strategic teamwork in action. Drawing on largely unpublished archival material, she illuminates tactics of collaboration and double-dealing. She reveals sharing of authority; b
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Early Modern Habsburg Women - Transnational Contexts, Cultural Conflicts, Dynastic Continuities

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 Through archival documents, pictorial and historical accounts, literature, and correspondence, as well as cultural artefacts such as paintings, jewellery, and garments, this volume examines the impact of Habsburg royal women in the broader historical, political, and cultural contexts of early modern Europe. Contributors explore the national and tra
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Men And Women Making Friends In Early Modern France

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 These essays tell the story of the declining intelligibility of classical models of (male) friendship and of the rising prominence of women as potential friends. Contributors reveal how men and women fashioned gendered selves, and also circumvented gender norms through concrete friendship practices. By showing that the benefits and the risks of fri
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Anna Maria Van Schurman, 'The Star Of Utrecht' - The Educational Vision And Reception Of A Savante

by Anne R. Larsen

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 Dutch Golden Age scholar Anna Maria van Schurman was widely regarded throughout the seventeenth century as the most learned woman of her age. This study addresses van Schurman's transformative contribution to the seventeenth-century debate on women's education. It analyzes, first, her educational philosophy; and, second, the transnational reception
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Imagining Women'S Conventual Spaces In France, 1600â€“1800 - The Cloister Disclosed

by Barbara R. Woshinsky

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 Blending history, architecture and literary analysis, this ground-breaking study explores the convent's place in the early modern imagination. After the Council of Trent imposed strict claustral enclosure, the nun became an intensified object of desire in male-authored narratives. Convents also inspired "feminutopian" discourses by women writers. R
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Devout Laywomen In The Early Modern World

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 Focusing specifically on semi-religious women, this volume addresses a number of provocative questions about gender and religion in the early modern world. It offers a nuanced approach to the paradigm of woman as the prototypical "disciplined" subject of church-state power, and reflects new directions in gender history.
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Sex, Gender, And Illegitimacy In The Castilian Noble Family, 1400-1600

by Grace E. Coolidge

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 Grace E. Coolidge looks at illegitimacy across the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyzes its implications for gender and family structure in the Spanish nobility, whose actions, structure, and power had immense implications for the future of the empire.
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Recovering Women'S Past - New Epistemologies, New Ventures

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 Recovering Womenâ€™s Past, edited by SÃ©verine Genieys-Kirk, is a collection of essays that focus on how women born before the nineteenth century have claimed a place in history and how they have been represented in the collective memory from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century.
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Scandal And Reputation At The Court Of Catherine De Medici

by Una Mcilvenna

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 Focusing on representations of scandals in popular culture and print, Una McIlvenna explores Catherine de Medici's legendary 'flying squadron', the ladies-in-waiting of the sixteenth-century French queen mother who allegedly seduced politically influential men to further their mistress's Machiavellian purposes. In tracing how the legend came about
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Telltale Women - Chronicling Gender In Early Modern Historiography

by Allison Machlis Meyer

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 Telltale Women fundamentally reimagines the relationship between the history play and its source material as an intertextual one, presenting evidence for a new narrative about how-and why-these genres disparately chronicle the histories of royal women. Allison Machlis Meyer challenges established perceptions of source study, historiography, and the staging of gender politics in well-known drama by arguing that chronicles and political histories frequently value womens political interventions and use narrative techniques to invest their voices with authority. Dramatists who used these sources for their history plays thus encountered a historical record that offered surprisingly ample precedents for depicting womens perspectives and political influence as legitimate, and writers for the commercial theater grappled with such precedents by reshaping source material to create stage representations of royal women that condemned queenship and female power. By tracing how the sanctioning of womens political participation changes from the narrative page to the dramatic stage, Meyer demonstrates that gender politics in both canonical and noncanonical history plays emerge from playwrights intertextual engagements with a rich alternative view of women in the narrative historiography of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Love, Power, And Gender In Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales

by Bronwyn Reddan

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 Love is a key ingredient in the stereotypical fairy-tale ending in which everyone lives happily ever after. This romantic formula continues to influence contemporary ideas about love and marriage, but it ignores the history of love as an emotion that shapes and is shaped by hierarchies of power including gender, class, education, and social status. This interdisciplinary study questions the idealization of love as the ultimate happy ending by showing how the conteuses, the women writers who dominated the first French fairy-tale vogue in the 1690s, used the fairy-tale genre to critique the power dynamics of courtship and marriage. Their tales do not sit comfortably in the fairy-tale canon as they explore the good, the bad, and the ugly effects of love and marriage on the lives of their heroines. Bronwyn Reddan argues that the conteuses scripts for love emphasize the importance of gender in determining the right way to love in seventeenth-century France. Their version of fairy-tale love is historical and contingent rather than universal and timeless. This conversation about love compels revision of the happily-ever-after narrative and offers incisive commentary on the gendered scripts for the performance of love in courtship and marriage in seventeenth-century France.
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Engendering Islands - Sexuality, Reproduction, And Violence In The Early French Caribbean

by Ashley M. Williard

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 Ashley M. Williard argues that early Caribbean reconstructions of masculinity and femininity sustained occupation, slavery, and nascent ideas of race.
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Queen Hedwig Eleonora And The Arts - Court Culture In Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe

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 As the dominant collector and patron of art and architecture in the realm, Queen Hedwig Eleonora (1636-1715) left a strong mark on Swedish court culture. This book represents the first major scholarly publication on the full range of Hedwig Eleonoraâ€™s endeavours. Presenting much new scholarship, contributors to this collection highlight one extreme
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Women'S Negotiations And Textual Agency In Latin America, 1500-1799

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 The present volume seeks to recover womenâ€™s voices and actions while studying the mechanisms through which they authorized themselves and participated in the creation of texts and documents found in archives of colonial Latin America. Organized according to three main themes, "Censorship and the Body," "Female Authority and Legal Discourse," and
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