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...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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 (304 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781526111951 |