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.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

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--Renaissance, 1450-1600.

Women.

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

Women--Europe--Social conditions.

Sex role--Europe--History.

Sex role.

Social role--Europe--History.

Social role.

Women--Europe--Biography.

Women--Modern period.

Women--Renaissance.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

251 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe examines the lives of women whose gender impeded the exercise of their personal, political, and religious agency, with an emphasis on the conflict that occurred when they crossed the edges society placed on their gender. Many of the women featured in this collection have only been afforded cursory scholarly focus, or the focus has been isolated to a specific, (in)famous event. This collection redresses this imbalance by providing comprehensive discussions of the women's lives, placing the matter that makes them known to history within the context of their entire life. Focusing on women from different backgrounds - such as Marie Meurdrac, the French chemist; Anna Trapnel, the Fifth Monarchist and prophetess; and Cecilia of Sweden, princess, margravine, countess, and regent - this collection brings together a wide range of scholars from a variety of disciplines to bring attention to these previously overlooked women.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Early Modern European Women and the Edge / 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 / Lara Thorpe

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

4. Anna Stanislawska's Orphan Girl of 1685 Autobiography of a Divorce / Lynn Lubamersky

Section II Witchcraft and the Edge

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

6. Anna Trapnel: Prophet or Witch? / 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 / Jessica O'Leary

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

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

10. `Elizabeth the Forgotten' The Life of Princess Elizabeth Stuart (1635-1650) / 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 / Eva Mendieta.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9789462987500

9462987505

OCLC:

1057769438

Publisher Number:

99987021440