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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 col...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hopkins, Lisa (Editor), Norrie, Aidan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press (Bibliovault) : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Series:Gendering the late medieval and early modern world.
Subjects:
1500-1699
Women > Europe > History > 16th century.
Women > Europe > History > 17th century.
Women > Europe > Biography.
Women > Europe > History > Renaissance, 1450-1600.
Femmes > Europe > Histoire > 1450-1600 (Renaissance)
Femmes > Europe > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Femmes > Europe > Biographies.
Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700.
Gender studies: women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Women
Europe
Early modern, women, Europe, gender.
Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: early modern European women and the edge / Aidan Norrie and Lisa Hopkins
  • 'At the mercy of a strange woman' / Lara Thorpe
  • Chemistry, medicine, and beauty on the edge: Marie Meurdrac / Sarah Gordon
  • Anna Stanislawska's Orphan Girl of 1685 / Lynn Lubamersky
  • Touching on the margins / Alex MacConochie
  • Anna Trapnel: prophet or witch? / Debra Parish
  • Wife, widow, exiled queen / Jessica O'Leary
  • On the edge of the s(h)elf: Arbella Stuart / Lisa Hopkins
  • Cecilia of Sweden: princess, margravine, countess, regent / Aidan Norrie
  • 'Elizabeth the forgotten' / Jessica L. Becker
  • Catalina de Erauso--'the lieutenant nun'--at the turn of the twenty-first century / Eva Mendieta

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