Women in Exile in Early Modern Europe and the Americas / edited by Linda Levy Peck and Adrianna E. Bakos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peck, Linda Levy, editor.

Bakos, Adrianna E., editor.

Series:

Women on the Move Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exiles--America--History.

Exiles.

Exiles--Europe--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas presents the important yet largely untold stories of a diverse group of women exiled across the Atlantic world in the early modern period. The book provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile and also contributes important new scholarship to the history of women.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title page

Series page

Title page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Figures

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Postscript

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: Religion and exile

Chapter 1: Iberian women in exile from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries

Chapter 2: Hitting bottom before reaching the top: the two exiles of Anne Marguerite Petit Dunoyer, 1686 and 1702

Chapter 3: Friends without friends: exile and excommunication from early Quakerism, c.1660-1800

Part II: Enslavement, freedom, and exile

Chapter 4: Notes to a former self: slavery's time in sixteenth-century Indigenous women's freedom suits

Chapter 5: 'Be sure thou stay at home': indentured women in the British Atlantic during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries

Chapter 6: 'A Mulatto woman named Margaret': fugitivity and forced exile in the age of American revolution, 1770-1783

Part III: Politics and political culture

Chapter 7: Sixteenth-century cast-off consorts: the internal exiles of Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves

Chapter 8: Refuge of ill-repute: the characterization of Marguerite de Valois' exile at Usson, 1586-1605

Chapter 9: Queen without a country: Elizabeth of Bohemia 1596-1662, exile and the Esther story

Chapter 10: Choosing exile: Aletheia, Countess of Arundel and Elizabeth Ludlow, 1641-1703

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781526185235

1526185237

9781526175335

1526175339

9781526175342

1526175347

OCLC:

1436833494