Practices of gender in late medieval and early modern Europe / edited by Megan Cassidy-Welch and Peter Sherlock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cassidy-Welch, Megan.

Sherlock, Peter

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Late medieval and early modern studies ; v. 11.

Late medieval and early modern studies ; v. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Women.

History.

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

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols ; Abingdon : Marston [distributor], [2008]

Summary:

This collection argues that gender must be considered as both an approach to history, and as a reflection of the deep workings of the lived, historical past. The sixteen original essays explore social and cultural expressions of gender in Europe from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. They examine theories and practices of gender in domestic, religious, and political contexts, including the Reformation, the convent, the workplace, witchcraft, the household, literacy, the arts, intellectual spheres, and cultures of violence and memory. The volume exposes the myriad ways in which gender was actually experienced, together with the strategies used by individual men and women to negotiate resilient patriarchal structures. Overall, the collection opens up new synergies for thinking about gender as a category of historical analysis and as a set of experiences central to late medieval and early modern Europe.

Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies

The series covers the historical period in Western and Central Europe from c. 1300 to c. 1650. It concentrates on topics of broad cultural, religious, intellectual, and literary history. The editors are particularly interested in studies that are distinguished by their broad chronological range; their spanning of time periods such as late medieval, Renaissance, Reformation, early modern; their straddling of national borders and historiographies; and their cross-disciplinary approach.

Contents:

Gender Theory and the Study of Early-Modern Europe / Merry Wiesner-Hanks 7

Pushing the Boundaries: Argula von Grumbach as a Lutheran Laywoman, 1492-1556/7 / Peter Matheson 25

A Woman's Path to Literary: The Letters of Margherita Datini, 1384-1410 / Carolyn James 43

Convent Culture in Early-Modern Italy: Laywomen and Religious Subversiveness in a Neapolitan Convent / Camilla Russell 57

Gender, Hybridity, and Violence on the Frontiers of Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Ireland / Dianne Hall, Elizabeth Malcolm 77

The Queen's Three Bodies: Gender, Criminality, and Sovereignty in the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots / Rayne Allinson 99

The Royal Art of Conjugal Discord: A Satirical Double Portrait of Francis I and Eleanor of Austria / Lisa Mansfield 117

Engendering Lust in Early-Modern Italy: Pisanello's Luxuria / Catherine Kovesi 137

Cornelius Agrippa's School of Love: Teaching Plato's Symposium at the Renaissance University / Grantley Mcdonald 151

'The richest man in Italy': Aldo Manuzio and the Value of Male Friendships / Rosa Salzberg 177

Women, Work, and Power in the Female Guilds of Rouen / Susan Broomhall 199

Textile Workers, Gender, and the Organization of Production in the Pre-Industrial Dutch Republic / Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk 215

Charitable Bodies: Clothing as Charity in Early-Modern Rural England / Dolly Mackinnon 235

Commemorating a Mortal Goddess: Maria Salviati de' Medici and the Cultural Politics of Duke Cosimo I / Natalie Tomas 261

Patriarchal Memory: Monuments in Early-Modern England / Peter Sherlock 279

Agency, Women, and Witchcraft in Early-Modern England: Rye, 1607-11 / Elizabeth Kent 301

Reflecting and Creating Gender in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Europe / Megan Cassidy-Welch, Peter Sherlock 317.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9782503523361

2503523366

OCLC:

213307943