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The Cooke sisters : Education, piety and politics in early modern England.
This book is a study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to a formal education; the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians. Drawing particularly on the sisters' own writ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Politics Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain MUP.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book is a study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to a formal education; the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians. Drawing particularly on the sisters' own writings, this book demonstrates that the sisters' education extended far beyond that normally allowed for sixteenth-century women, challenging the view that women in this period were excluded from using their formal education to practical effect. It reveals that the sisters' learning provided them with oppo. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (286 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781526111951 1526111950 9781526111944 1526111942 |