Time, Space, and Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe / / ed. by Silvana Seidel Menchi, Thomas Kuehn, Anne Jacobson Schutte.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Barth-Scalmani, Gunda,; Beck-Busse, Gabriele,; Chojnacki, Stanley,; Hacke, Daniela,; Harris, Barbara J.,; Jacobson Schutte, Anne,; Kirshner, Julius,; Kuehn, Thomas,; Medioli, Francesca,; Seidel Menchi, Silvana,; Sorensen Zapalac, Kristin Eldyss,; Wiesner-Hanks, Merry,; Wunder, Heide,; Zarri, Gabriella,; Zimmermann, Margarete,; d'Amelia, Marina,
• HerausgeberIn: Kuehn, Thomas,; Menchi, Silvana Seidel,; Schutte, Anne Jacobson,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies ; 57
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

This collection offers a variety of approaches to aspects of women's lives. It moves beyond men's prescriptive pronouncements about female nature to women's lived experiences, replacing the singular woman with plural women and illuminating female agency. The contributors show that women's lives changed over the life course and differed according to region and social class. They also demonstrate that in the early modern period the largely private spaces in women's lives were not enclosed worlds isolated from the public spaces in which men operated.Contributors to this important collection are leading international scholars and offer strong, substantial, and archival-based research.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- Women's History and Social History: Are Structures Necessary? -- The Querelle des Femmes as a Cultural Studies Paradigm -- Grammar in Arcadia -- The Girl and the Hourglass: Periodization of Women's Lives in Western Preindustrial Societies -- Part 2 -- Getting Back the Dowry: Venice, c. 1360-1530 -- Daughters, Mothers, Wives, and Widows: Women as Legal Persons -- Women Married Elsewhere: Gender and Citizenship in Italy -- Part 3 -- "Saints" and "Witches": in Early Modern Italy: Stepsisters or Strangers? -- The Dimensions of the Cloister: Enclosure, Constraint, and Protection in Seventeenth-Century Italy -- The Third Status -- Part 4 -- "Non lo volevo per marito: in modo alcuno": Forced Marriages, Generational Conflicts, and the Limits of Patriarchal Power in Early Modern Venice, c. 1580-1680 -- Becoming a Mother in the: Seventeenth Century: The Experience of a Roman Noblewoman -- Space, Time, and the Power of Aristocratic Wives in Yorkist and Early Tudor England, 1450-1550 -- Eighteenth-Century Marriage Contracts: Linking Legal and Gender History -- Part 5 -- En-Gendering Selfhood: Defining Differences and Forging Identities in Early Modern Europe -- Construction of Masculinity and Male Identity in Personal Testimonies: Hans Von Schweinichen (1552-1616) in His Memorial -- About the Contributors -- Index