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Witchcraft and Gender in Early Modern Society
How could a woman be three times accused of witchcraft and go on running a successful farmstead? Why would men use a frying pan for cattle magic? Why did witches keep talking …
Gender, Sexuality, and Material Objects in English Renaissance Verse
An important contribution to recent critical discussions about gender, sexuality, and material culture in Renaissance England, this study analyzes female- and male-authored lyrics …
The Medici Women
The Medici Women is a study of the women of the famous Medici family of Florence in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Natalie Tomas examines critically the changing …
Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Century, 1549-1650
Meticulously researched and drawing on original source materials written in eight different languages, this study fills a lacuna in the historiography of Christianity in Japan, …
Learning and Literacy in Female Hands, 1520-1698
Focusing on the unusual learning and schooling of women in early modern England, this study explores how and why women wrote, the myriad forms their alphabets could assume, and the …
Musical Voices of Early Modern Women
Recent scholarship has offered a veritable landslide of studies about early modern women, illuminating them as writers, thinkers, midwives, mothers, in convents, at home, and as …
The Power and Patronage of Marguerite de Navarre
Although Marguerite de Navarre's unique position in sixteenth-century France has long been acknowledged and she is one of the most studied women of the time, until now no study has …
Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas
When Europe introduced mechanisms to control New World territories, resources and populations, women-whether African, indigenous, mixed race, or European-responded and participated …
Boccaccio's Heroines
In contrast to earlier scholars who have seen Boccaccio's Famous Women as incoherent and fractured, Franklin argues that the text offers a remarkably consistent, coherent and …
English Printing, Verse Translation, and the Battle of the Sexes, 1476-1557
Bringing to light new material about early print, early modern gender discourses, and cultural contact between France and England in the revolutionary first phase of English print …
Guardianship, Gender, and the Nobility in Early Modern Spain
Contrary to early modern patriarchal assumptions, this study argues that rather trying to impose obedience or enclosure on women of their own rank and status, noblemen in early …
Women, Texts and Authority in the Early Modern Spanish World
This is the first essay collection to examine the relation between text and gender in Spain from a broad geographical, social and cultural perspective covering more than 300 years. …