Women and Geography on the Early Modern English Stage / / Katja Pilhuj.
In a late 1590s atlas proof from cartographer John Speed, Queen Elizabeth appears, crowned and brandishing a ruler as the map's scale-of-miles. Not just a map key, the queen's depiction here presents her as a powerful arbiter of measurement in her kingdom. For Speed, the queen was a formid...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Confuting Those Blind Geographers
- 2. ‘T’illumine the now obscurèd Palestine’
- 3. ‘Willing to Pay Their Maidenheads’
- 4. ‘The Fort of her Chastity’
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index