Attending to early modern women : conflict and concord / edited by Karen Nelson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nelson, Karen L., 1965-

Beverly Bennett Rutstein CW'50 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and war--History.

Women and war.

Women and peace--History.

Women and peace.

History.

Physical Description:

xxv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield, [2013]

Summary:

This volume considers women's roles in the conflicts and negotiations of the early modern world. Essays explore the ways gender shapes women's agency in times of war, religious strife, and economic change. How were conflict and concord gendered in histories, literature, music, and political, legal, didactic, and religious treatises? Four interdisciplinary plenary topics ground this exploration: negotiations, economies, faiths and spiritualities, and pedagogies. Scholars focus upon many regions of the early modern world-the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, Granada, Indonesia, the Low Countries, England, and Italy-inflected by such religions as Islam, Catholicism, and Reformed Protestantism, as they came into contact with indigenous spiritualities and with one another. Essays and workshop summaries analyze how gender and class are implicated in economic change and assess the ways gender and religion map onto voyages of trade, exploration, or imperialism. They investigate how women, as individuals and as members of political or family networks, were instrumental in transmitting, promoting, supporting, or thwarting different religions during times of religious crises. This volume also offers methods for teaching and researching these topics. It will be invaluable to scholars of medieval and early modern women's studies, especially those working in history, literature, languages, musicology, and religious studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Negotiations 1

1 Big Sister as Intermediary: How Maria Rolandus Tried to Win Back Her Wayward Brother / Craig Harline Harline, Craig 3

2 Getting Past No or Getting to Yes: Nuns, Divas, and Negotiation Tactics in Early Modern Italy / Colleen Reardon Reardon, Colleen 23

3 Workshop Summaries 1-6: Negotiations 45

II Economies 57

4 History's "Silent Whispers": Representing the Past Through Feeling and Form / Megan Matchinske Matchinske, Megan 59

5 Columbus's Sister: Female Agency and Women's Bodies in Early Modern Mediterranean and Atlantic Empires / Holly Hurlburt Hurlburt, Holly 77

6 The Female Body in Islamic Law and Medicine: Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Pediatrics / Maya Shatzmiller Shatzmiller, Maya 93

7 Workshop Summaries 7-10: Economies 107

III Faiths and Spiritualities 115

8 Spaces for Agency: The View from Early Modern Female Religious Communities / Silvia Evangelisti Evangelisti, Silvia 117

9 Marian Devotion and Identity in Early Modern Indonesia: Mother Maria, Queen of Larantuka / Barbara Watson Andaya Andaya, Barbara Watson 135

10 Workshop Summaries 11-18: Faiths and Spiritualities 153

IV Pedagogies 167

11 Gender Differentials in Honors Programs and Colleges / Susan E. Dinan Dinan, Susan E. 169

12 Geoffrey Chaucer, the Wife of Bath (ca. 1395) and Christine de Pizan, from Letter of the God of Love (1399) to City of Ladies (1405): A New Kind of Encounter Between Male and Female / Albert Rabil Jr. Rabil, Albert, Jr. 189

13 Early Modern Amazons: Teaching Conflict in Representation / Eleonora Stoppino Stoppino, Eleonora 207

14 Workshop Summaries 19-21: Pedagogies 219.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Beverly Bennett Rutstein CW'50 Fund.

ISBN:

1611494443

9781611494440

9781611494457

1611494451

OCLC:

820530992

Publisher Number:

99956352219