Twenty-five women who shaped the early modern Holy Roman Empire / Katrin Keller ; translated by Bernard Heise.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keller, Katrin, author.

Contributor:

Heise, Bernard, translator.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Twenty-five women who shaped the...

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Holy Roman Empire--Biography.

Women.

Holy Roman Empire--Civilization.

Holy Roman Empire.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 314 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Katrin Keller is Director of the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria.

Contents:

Caritas (Barbara) Pirckheimer (1467-1532) : the learned nun

Katharina Zell (1497/98-1562) : a woman who preached

Maria of Hungary (1505-1558) : on behalf of the dynasty

Elisabeth of Brunswick-Calenberg (1510-1558) : a princess as reformer

Anna of Saxony (1532-1585) : of princely domains and good medicines

Archduchess Maria of Inner Austria (1551-1608) : how a mother shapes her children

Polyxena of Lobkowicz (1566-1642) : between Bohemia and Spain

Anna of Brandenburg (1576-1625) : how Prussia came to Brandenburg

Maria Magdalena Haidenbucher (1576-1650) : abbess in troubled times

atharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633-1694) : the poet in exile

Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717) : science and painting

Glikl bas Judah Leib (1647?-1724) : the experiences of a Jewish businesswoman

Empress Eleonora Magdalena (1655-1720) : how to care for your siblings

Maria Aurora von Königsmarck (1662-1728) : the mistress in the imperial abbey

Erdmuthe Benigna of Reuss-Ebersdorf (1670-1732) : women and the Pietist movement

Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670-1720) : the arduous journey to the sciences

Luise Adelgunde Gottsched (1713-1762) : more than the woman at his side

Dorothea Erxleben (1715-1762) : a medical doctor prevails

Empress Maria Theresa (1717-1780) : the heiress

Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721-1782) : from innkeeper to court painter

Anna Barbara Gignoux (1725-1796) : how to defend a calico factory

Sophie von La Roche (1730-1807) : a life as a female author

Amalie Gallitzin (1748-1806) : philosophy, religion, and conviviality

Maria Theresia Paradis (1759-1824) : the blind pianist

Henriette Herz (1764-1847) : a salon in Berlin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: Keller, Katrin. Twenty-five women who shaped the early modern Holy Roman Empire

ISBN:

9781003252870

1003252877

9781040091845

1040091849

Publisher Number:

40032440096

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