Women on the edge in early modern Europe / edited by Lisa Hopkins and Aidan Norrie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hopkins, Lisa, 1962- editor.

Norrie, Aidan, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Gendering the late medieval and early modern world ; 7.

Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--History--Modern period, 1600-.

Women.

History.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1 Introduction: Early Modern European Women and the Edge p. 15 / Aldan Norrie and Lisa Hopkins

Section I Life on the Edge

2 'At the mercy of a strange woman': Plague Nurses, Marginality, and Fear during the Great Plague of 1665 p. 29 / Lara Thorpe

3 Chemistry, Medicine, and Beauty on the Edge: Marie Meurdrac p. 45 / Sarah Gordon

4 Anna Stanislawska's Orphan Girt of 1685: Autobiography of a Divorce p. 71 / Lynn Lubamersky

Section II Witchcraft and the Edge

5 Touching on the Margins: Elizabeth Sawyer's Body in Performance and Print p. 93 / Alex MacConochie

6 Anna Trapnel: Prophet or Witch? p. 113 / Debra Parish

Section III Courtly Women on the Edge

7 Wife, Widow, Exiled Queen: Beatrice d'Aragona (1457-1508) and Kinship in Early Modern Europe p. 139 / Jessica O'Leary

8 On the Edge of the S(h)elf: Arbella Stuart p. 159 / Lisa Hopkins

9 Cecilia of Sweden: Princess, Margravine, Countess, Regent p. 179 / Aidan Norrie

10 'Elizabeth the Forgotten': The Life of Princess Elizabeth Stuart (1635-1650) p. 203 / Jessica L. Becker

Epilogue The Early Modern Edge in the Twenty-first Century

11 Catalina de Erauso-'the Lieutenant Nun'-at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century p. 227 / Eva Mendieta.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789048539178

904853917X

Publisher Number:

40028988521

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.