Women's Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe.

• Author: Käfer, Natacha Klein.
• TeilnehmendeR: Perez, Natália da Silva.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (150 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- Situating Women's Private Practices of Knowledge Production in the Early Modern Context -- References -- Primary Sources -- Bibliography -- Lady Jane Lumley's Private Education and Its Political Resonances -- Introduction: Education at a Noble Household -- The Private, the Public, and the Political in Lady Lumley's Writings -- Lady Lumley's The Tragedie of Euripides Called Iphigeneia -- Comparing Translations of Iphigenia at Aulis -- In Conclusion -- References -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Camilla Herculiana (Erculiani): Private Practices of Knowledge Production -- Herculiana's Private Life and Connections: Biographical and Contextual Framework -- Camilla Herculiana é Gregetta, Lettere di philosophia naturale (1584) -- Paratextual Analysis -- Letters' Analysis -- Inquisitional Trial -- Conclusion -- References -- Primary Sources -- Bibliography -- From Behind the Folding Screen to the Collège de France: Victorine de Chastenay's Privacy Dynamics for Knowledge in the Making -- Note-Taking and Knowledge Acquisition as Private Practices -- Adapting the Household's Privacy to Reconcile Writing and Social Obligations -- Privacy in Institutional Spaces -- Conclusion -- References -- Primary Sources -- Archival -- Printed Sources -- Bibliography -- "Fait à mes heures de loisir": Women's Private Libraries as Spaces of Learning and Knowledge Production -- The Ducal Libraries: Private Collections? -- Elisabeth Sophie Marie and Philippine Charlotte of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel -- The Duchesses' Book Use and Knowledge Production -- Private Knowledge Spaces: Concluding Remarks -- References -- Primary Sources -- Archival Material -- Printed Sources -- Bibliography -- Contingent Privacies: Knowledge Production and Gender Expectations from 1500 to 1800.

Women's Knowledges and Publicizing the Private -- Knowledge Production at Home -- Women, Knowledge, and Their Bodies -- References -- Bibliography -- Index.