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Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World
ISBN: 9781472424914 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Devout laywomen raise a number of provocative questions about gender and religion in the early modern world. How did some groups or individuals evade the Tridentine legislation that required third order women to take solemn vows and observe active and passive enclosure? How did their attempts to exercise a female apostolate (albeit with varying degrees of success and assertiveness) destabilize hierarchies of class and gender? To the extent that their beliefs and practices diverged from approved doctrine and rituals, what insights can they provide into the tensions between official religion...
Devout laywomen raise a number of provocative questions about gender and religion in the early modern world. How did some groups or individuals evade ...
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Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici
ISBN: 9781472428219 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici explores Catherine de Medici's 'flying squadron', the legendary ladies-in-waiting of the sixteenth-century French queen mother who were alleged to have been ordered to seduce politically influential men for their mistress's own Machiavellian purposes. Branded a 'cabal of cuckoldry' by a contemporary critic, these women were involved in scandals that have encouraged a perception, which continues in much academic literature, of the late Valois court as debauched and corrupt. Rather than trying to establish the guilt or innocence... Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici explores Catherine de Medici's 'flying squadron', the legendary ladies-in-waiting of the... |
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