ISBN:
9781000709315
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (457 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Histories Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Routledge history of women in early modern Europe
DDC:
305.4094/0903
Keywords:
Women History Modern period, 1500-
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Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Frau
;
Europa
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Produktivität
;
Soziales Engagement
;
Politik
;
Geschichte 1450-1750
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Histories of European women and the power of ideas -- Women in place and time in early modern Europe -- Gendering Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment -- Women in early-modern Europe: the scope of the book -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART I: The affective world: body, kinship and emotions -- 1. Bodies, sex and sexuality -- Sex, marriage and fertility -- Extra-marital sex and sexual assault -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Family, kin and friendship -- Siblings -- Sisters and religious sisters -- Sisters in girlhood and into adulthood as married sisters, aunts and in-laws -- Neighbours, kin, friends and godparents -- Women and daughters in stepfamilies and blended families -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Love and other emotions -- Early-modern love -- Loving neighbours -- Loving wives and mothers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. Affective responses to illness and death -- 'Resign'd to the will of God': religious convictions -- 'Pull up a Spiritt': medical frameworks -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART II: Practical literacies: education, law and labour -- 5. Education: learning, literacy and domestic virtues -- From modest, obedient and pious virgins to submissive spouses, housekeepers or religious women -- The household -- Orphanages -- Schools -- Religious women and Catholic schools -- Serving the community: lay teachers and parish schools in Protestant countries -- Boarding schools -- Literacy -- 'Pens and needles' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6. Work in countryside, cities and towns -- Introducing women's work in early-modern Europe.
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