Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe /

Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe / / ed. by Aidan Norrie, Lisa Hopkins.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Becker, Jessica L.,
Gordon, Sarah,
Hopkins, Lisa,
Lubamersky, Lynn,
MacConochie, Alex,
Mendieta, Eva,
Norrie, Aidan,
O'Leary, Jessica,
Parish, Debra,
Thorpe, Lara,
HerausgeberIn:
Hopkins, Lisa,
Norrie, Aidan,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World ; 7
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Physical Description:1 online resource (250 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction: Early Modern European Women and the Edge
  • Section I. Life on the Edge
  • 2. 'At the mercy of a strange woman'
  • 3. Chemistry, Medicine, and Beauty on the Edge: Marie Meurdrac
  • 4. Anna Stanislawska's Orphan Girl of 1685
  • Section II. Witchcraft and the Edge
  • 5. Touching on the Margins
  • 6. Anna Trapnel: Prophet or Witch?
  • Section III. Courtly Women on the Edge
  • 7. Wife, Widow, Exiled Queen
  • 8. On the Edge of the S(h)elf: Arbella Stuart
  • 9. Cecilia of Sweden: Princess, Margravine, Countess, Regent
  • 10. 'Elizabeth the Forgotten'
  • Epilogue. The Early Modern Edge in the Twenty-first Century
  • 11. Catalina de Erauso-'the Lieutenant Nun'-at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
  • Index

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