Non-Elite Women's Networks Across the Early Modern World / / ed. by Marlee J. Couling, Elizabeth Storr Cohen.
Non-elite or marginalized early modern women—among them the poor, migrants, members of religious or ethnic minorities, abused or abandoned wives, servants, and sex workers—have seldom left records of their experiences. Drawing on a variety of sources, including trial records, administrative paperwor...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- Part I Mediterranean Crossings
- 1. Going Beyond Montagu. The Network of Subaltern Women in the Turkish Embassy, 1716–1718
- 2. Gendered Naming Practices among Coptic Christians in Sixteenth- Century Cairo. A Preliminary Assessment
- 3. The “Queen of Algiers” An Enterprising Renegade in the Rome of Pope Sixtus V
- 4. An Exotic Migrant , Despina Basaraba Networks a New Life in Papal Rome circa 1600
- Part II Local Networks in Europe
- 5. Domestic Violence and Networks of Female Support in Seventeenth- Century England
- 6. The Place-Based Networks of Sex Workers in Sixteenth-Century Venice
- 7. Making a Name in Music. Professional and Social Strategies of the Musicians at the Venetian Ospedali Maggiori
- 8. Food and Drink Make Relationships. Female Alliances and Commensality in Celestina and La Lozana andaluza
- Part III Body and Spirit in Colonial Spanish America
- 9. “Wall Neighbors,” Mothers-in-Law, and Comadres. Spousal Violence and Networks of Plebeian Female Intimacy and Solidarity in Urban Neighborhoods of Early to Mid-Colonial New Spain (1550–1670)
- 10. Far from the Margins. Non-elite Single Women and Spiritual Networking in Colonial Guatemala
- Supplementary Bibliography of Secondary Works
- Index