Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe: 1500 - 1700

ISBN-13: 9780582423299 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 234 str.

Jessica Munns; Penny Richards

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A major collection of essays by leading scholars of the social, political, economic and cultural situation of women and men in early modern Europe. The text provides examples of the major approaches - gender studies, family studies and studies of religion and popular culture.

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CONTENTSList o f Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsList o f ContributorsIntroductionJessica Munns and Penny Richards 1 Gender and sexuality in early modem England 2 Gender and early emancipation in the Low Countries 3 'So was theys castell layd wyde open': Battle for the phallus in early modern responses to Chaucer's Pardoner 4 The importnace of a name: Gender, power and the strategy of naming a child in a noble Italian family 5 'Our Trinity!': Francis I, Louise of Savoy and Marguerite d' Angouleme 6 Elizabeth I as Deborah: Biblical typology, prophecy and political power 7 Queen Anna bites back: Protest, effemiinacy and manliness at the Jacobean court Privileges of the soul, pains of the body: Teresa de Jesus, the mystic beatas and the Spanish Inquisition after Trent 9 Allarme to England!; Gender and militarism in early modern England 10 The Guise women: Politics, war and peace Notes Select Bibliography Index