This book examines the lives of women whose gender impeded the exercise of their personal, political, and religious agency, especially when they were expected to occupy the spheres society believed their gender should.
This book examines the lives of women whose gender impeded the exercise of their personal, political, and religious agency, especially when they were expected to occupy the spheres society believed their gender should.
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Produktdetails
Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University and co-editor of Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association, of the Arden Early Modern Drama Guides, and of Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama. Aidan Norrie is Lecturer in History and Programme Leader at the University Campus North Lincolnshire and the Managing Editor of The London Journal. Aidan has co-edited several collections, including Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe (2019) and Tudor and Stuart Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty (2022).
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Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Early Modern European Women and the Edge Section I: Life on the Edge 2. 'At the mercy of a strange woman': Plague Nurses Marginality and Fear during the Great Plague of 1665 3. Chemistry Medicine and Beauty on the Edge: Marie Meurdrac 4. Anna Stanislawska's Orphan Girl of 1685: Autobiography of a Divorce Section II: Witchcraft and the Edge 5. Touching on the Margins: Elizabeth Sawyer's Body in Performance and Print 6. Anna Trapnel: Prophet or Witch? Section III: Courtly Women on the Edge 7. Wife Widow Exiled Queen: Beatrice d'Aragona (1457-1508) and Kinship in Early Modern Europe 8. On the Edge of the S(h)elf: Arbella Stuart 9. Cecilia of Sweden: Princess Margravine Countess Regent 10. 'Elizabeth the Forgotten': The Life of Princess Elizabeth Stuart (1635-1650) Epilogue: The Early Modern Edge in the Twenty-first Century 11. Catalina de Erauso-'the Lieutenant Nun'-at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Index
Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Early Modern European Women and the Edge Section I: Life on the Edge 2. 'At the mercy of a strange woman': Plague Nurses Marginality and Fear during the Great Plague of 1665 3. Chemistry Medicine and Beauty on the Edge: Marie Meurdrac 4. Anna Stanislawska's Orphan Girl of 1685: Autobiography of a Divorce Section II: Witchcraft and the Edge 5. Touching on the Margins: Elizabeth Sawyer's Body in Performance and Print 6. Anna Trapnel: Prophet or Witch? Section III: Courtly Women on the Edge 7. Wife Widow Exiled Queen: Beatrice d'Aragona (1457-1508) and Kinship in Early Modern Europe 8. On the Edge of the S(h)elf: Arbella Stuart 9. Cecilia of Sweden: Princess Margravine Countess Regent 10. 'Elizabeth the Forgotten': The Life of Princess Elizabeth Stuart (1635-1650) Epilogue: The Early Modern Edge in the Twenty-first Century 11. Catalina de Erauso-'the Lieutenant Nun'-at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Index
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