Book Description
A transnational comparison of women rulers and women's sovereignty throughout Europe
Author : Anne J. Cruz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0252076168
A transnational comparison of women rulers and women's sovereignty throughout Europe
Author : Margaret L. King
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226436330
The books in The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series chronicle the heretofore neglected stories of women between 1400 and 1700 with the aim of reviving scholarly interest in their thought as expressed in a full range of genres: treatises, orations, and history; lyric, epic, and dramatic poetry; novels and novellas; letters, biography, and autobiography; philosophy and science. Teaching Other Voices: Women and Religion in Early Modern Europe complements these rich volumes by identifying themes useful in literature, history, religion, women's studies, and introductory humanities courses. The volume's introduction, essays, and suggested course materials are intended as guides for teachers--but will serve the needs of students and scholars as well.
Author : James Daybell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1134883986
Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe investigates the gendered nature of political culture across early modern Europe by exploring the relationship between gender, power, and political authority and influence. This collection offers a rethinking of what constituted ‘politics’ and a reconsideration of how men and women operated as part of political culture. It demonstrates how underlying structures could enable or constrain political action, and how political power and influence could be exercised through social and cultural practices. The book is divided into four parts - diplomacy, gifts and the politics of exchange; socio-economic structures; gendered politics at court; and voting and political representations – each of which looks at a series of interrelated themes exploring the ways in which political culture is inflected by questions of gender. In addition to examples drawn from across Europe, including Austria, the Dutch Republic, the Italian States and Scandinavia, the volume also takes a transnational comparative approach, crossing national borders, while the concluding chapter, by Merry Wiesner-Hanks, offers a global perspective on the field and encourages comparative analysis both chronologically and geographically. As the first collection to draw together early modern gender and political culture, this book is the perfect starting point for students exploring this fascinating topic.
Author : S. Jansen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0230602118
In The Monstrous Regiment of Women , Sharon Jansen explores the case for and against female rule by examining the arguments made by theorists from Sir John Fortescue (1461) through Bishop Bossuet (1680) interweaving their arguments with references to the most well-known early modern queens. The 'story' of early modern European political history looks very different if, instead of focusing on kings and their sons, we see successive generations of powerful women and the shifting political alliances of the period from a very different, and revealing, perspective.
Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Beatrix, Ungarn, Königin
ISBN : 9789462987500
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.
Author : Helen Matheson-Pollock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,66 MB
Release : 2018-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 331976974X
The discourse of political counsel in early modern Europe depended on the participation of men, as both counsellors and counselled. Women were often thought too irrational or imprudent to give or receive political advice—but they did in unprecedented numbers, as this volume shows. These essays trace the relationship between queenship and counsel through over three hundred years of history. Case studies span Europe, from Sweden and Poland-Lithuania via the Habsburg territories to England and France, and feature queens regnant, consort and regent, including Elizabeth I of England, Catherine Jagiellon of Sweden, Catherine de’ Medici and Anna of Denmark. They draw on a variety of innovative sources to recover evidence of queenly counsel, from treatises and letters to poetry, masques and architecture. For scholars of history, politics and literature in early modern Europe, this book enriches our understanding of royal women as political actors.
Author : Suzanne Desan
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0271047720
Author : Helen Nader
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252028687
A collection of essays which provide portraits of eight of the Mendoza family's female members. It explores the lives of powerful women whose lineage gave them status within a patriarchal society designed to keep women from public life.
Author : Elizabeth Storr Cohen
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9789462984325
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, social, and psychological transformations. Drawing on two mutually shaped layers of inquiry -- cultural constructions of youth and lived experiences -- these essays exploit a wide variety of sources, including literary and autobiographical works, conduct literature, judicial and asylum records, drawings, and material culture. The geographical and temporal ranges traverse England, Ireland, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, and Mexico from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. This volume brings fresh attention to representations of female youth, their own life writings, young women's training for adulthood, courtship, and the emergent sexual lives of young unmarried women.
Author : Lara Apps
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,28 MB
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 152613750X
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This is the first ever full book on the subject of male witches addressing incidents of witch-hunting in both Britain and Europe. Uses feminist categories of gender analysis to critique the feminist agenda that mars many studies. Advances a more bal. Critiques historians’ assumptions about witch-hunting, challenging the marginalisation of male witches by feminist and other historians. Shows that large numbers of men were accused of witchcraft in their own right, in some regions, more men were accused than women. It uses feminist categories of gender analysis to challenge recent arguments and current orthodoxies providing a more balanced and complex view of witch-hunting and ideas about witches in their gendered forms than has hitherto been available.