ISBN:
9789048539178
,
904853917X
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (251 pages)
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
Gendering the late medieval and early modern world
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Women on the edge in early modern Europe
DDC:
305.40940903
Keywords:
Women History 17th century
;
Women Biography
;
Women History 16th century
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
;
Women
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
Biographies
;
History
;
Europe
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Introduction: early modern European women and the edge / Aidan Norrie and Lisa Hopkins -- 'At the mercy of a strange woman' / Lara Thorpe -- Chemistry, medicine, and beauty on the edge: Marie Meurdrac / Sarah Gordon -- Anna Stanislawska's Orphan Girl of 1685 / Lynn Lubamersky -- Touching on the margins / Alex MacConochie -- Anna Trapnel: prophet or witch? / Debra Parish -- Wife, widow, exiled queen / Jessica O'Leary -- On the edge of the s(h)elf: Arbella Stuart / Lisa Hopkins -- Cecilia of Sweden: princess, margravine, countess, regent / Aidan Norrie -- 'Elizabeth the forgotten' / Jessica L. Becker -- Catalina de Erauso--'the lieutenant nun'--at the turn of the twenty-first century / Eva Mendieta
Abstract:
Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe examines the lives of women whose gender impeded the exercise of their personal, political, and religious agency, with an emphasis on the conflict that occurred when they crossed the edges society placed on their gender. Many of the women featured in this collection have only been afforded cursory scholarly focus, or the focus has been isolated to a specific, (in)famous event. This collection redresses this imbalance by providing comprehensive discussions of the women's lives, placing the matter that makes them known to history within the context of their entire life. Focusing on women from different backgrounds - such as Marie Meurdrac, the French chemist; Anna Trapnel, the Fifth Monarchist and prophetess; and Cecilia of Sweden, princess, margravine, countess, and regent - this collection brings together a wide range of scholars from a variety of disciplines to bring attention to these previously overlooked women
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9789048539178/type/BOOK
