Women in Renaissance and early modern Europe / Christine Meek, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meek, Christine.

Series:

Studies on medieval and early modern women ; 2.

Studies on medieval and early modern women ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Europe--History.

Women.

Europe.

History.

Renaissance.

Physical Description:

230 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Four Courts, [2000]

Contents:

'A widow of God'? : St. Anne and representations of widowhood in fifteenth-century Florence / Catherine Lawless

Men, women and magic : some cases from late medieval Lucca / Christine Meek

'She was usually placed with the great men and leaders of the land in the public assemblies' : Alice Kyteler : a woman of considerable power / Bernadette Williams

The gift of a lady : women as patrons in medieval Ireland / Elizabeth McKenna

Women and the law in early modern Ireland / Mary O'Dowd

Hidden pleasures : the representation of the prostitute in seventeenth-century Dutch painting / Sacha Fegan

An unequal law : the enforcement of clausura before and after the Council of Trent / Francesca Medioli

Repression or liberation? Notions of the body among the nuns of Port-Royal / Carol Baxter

Writing motherhood in the reign of Louis XIV : some fictional and political representations / Susanne Reid

Tragic ambiguities : gender and sovereignty in French classical drama / Derval Conroy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and index.

ISBN:

1851824235

1851824243

OCLC:

43960034