Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500 - 1750 / / edited by Sarah Joan Moran and Amanda C. Pipkin.

"Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750 brings together research on women and gender across the Low Countries, a culturally contiguous region that was split by the Eighty Years War into the Protestant Dutch Republic in the north and the Spanish-controlled, Catholic Hapsbu...

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Superior document:Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions Series ; Volume 217
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; Volume 217.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • The problem of women's agency in late medieval and early modern Europe / Martha Howell
  • Women's writing during the Dutch revolt: the religious authority and political agenda of the devout Teellinck women in zierikzee, 1554-1625 / Amanda Pipkin
  • The maid of Holland and her heroic heiresses / Martha Moffitt Peacock
  • The absent made present: portraying nuns in the early modern Low countries / Margit Thofner
  • Women writers and the Dutch stage: public femininity in the plays of Verwers and Questiers / Martine van Elk
  • Anna Francisca de Bruyns (1604/5-1656), artist, wife and mother: a contextual approach to her forgotten artistic career / Katlijne Van der Stighelen
  • Foregrounding the background: images of Dutch and Flemish household servants / Diane Wolfthal
  • Resurrecting the 'spiritual daughters': the Houtappel Chapel and women's patronage of Jesuit building programs in the Spanish Netherlands / Sarah Joan Moran.