Gemma Allen

The Cooke sisters (eBook, ePUB)

Education, piety and politics in early modern England

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to formal humanist education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526111944
• Artikelnr.: 48795847

Autorenporträt

Gemma Allen is Lecturer in Early Modern History at The Open University and Retained Lecturer at Pembroke College, Oxford

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. 'Nouzeled and trained in the studie of letters': reading
and learning 2. 'Quod licuit feci': the power of the word 3. 'Haud inane
est quod dico': female counsellors 4. 'Cecil's wife tells me': political
networks 5. 'Building up of the bodie of the fellowship of Saincts':
religious networks 6. 'Of more learning than is necessary for that sex':
responses to learned women Conclusion Bibliography Index