Studies on medieval and early modern women : pawns or players? / Christine Meek & Catherine Lawless, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meek, Christine.

Lawless, Catherine.

Series:

Studies on medieval and early modern women ; 3.

Studies on medieval and early modern women ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.

Women.

History.

Women--History--Renaissance, 1450-1600.

Physical Description:

224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Four Courts, [2003]

Contents:

A source for the depiction of Eve in the early-modern period: biblical Latin epic of the fifth and sixth centuries / John Flood 18

Share and share alike? The marriage portion, inheritance and family politics / Claire de Trafford 36

'I have nothing but through her': women and the conquest of Ireland, 1170-1240 / Brendan Smith 49

The power of dower: the importance of dower in the lives of medieval women in Ireland / Gillian Kenny 59

Freedom of movement? Women travellers in the Middle Ages / Diana Webb 75

The gender of lordly women: the case of Adela of Blois / Kimberly A. LoPrete 90

Women on the margins: the 'beloved' and the 'mistress' in Renaissance Florence / Catherine Lawless 111

Women and violence in late medieval Ireland / Dianne Hall 131

Theory in the absence of fact: Irish women and the Catholic Reformation / Tadhg O hAnnrachain 141

'What will my sister think of me now': the role of sisterhood in sustaining resistance by the Port-Royal community / Carol Baxter 155

'Hyr wombe insaciate': the iconography of the feminised monster / Samantha J.E. Riches 177.

Notes:

"This book comprises some of the papers read at two conferences in Trinity College, 'Pawns and Players' on 4 December 1999 and 'Women at Home, Women Abroad' on 23 February 2001"--P. 7.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-213) and index.

ISBN:

1851827749

1851827757

OCLC:

51840957