Women and Gender in Early Modern EuropeThis is a major new textbook, designed for students in all disciplines seeking an introduction to the very latest research on all aspects of women's lives in Europe from 1500 to 1750, and on the development of the notions of masculinity and femininity. The coverage is geographically broad, ranging from Spain to Scandinavia, and from Russia to Ireland, and the topics investigated include the female life-cycle, literacy, women's economic role, sexuality, artistic creations, female piety - and witchcraft - and the relationship between gender and power. To aid students each chapter contains extensive notes on further reading (but few footnotes), and the approach throughout is designed to render the subject in as accessible and stimulating manner as possible. Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe is suitable for usage on numerous courses in women's history, early modern European history, and comparative history. |
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... female subordination as intrinsic in God's original creation , for only men were fully created in the image of God and women were intellectually , physically , and morally inferior . Augustine's contemporary St. Jerome ( ca. 347-419 ...
... female subordination as intrinsic in God's original creation , for only men were fully created in the image of God and women were intellectually , physically , and morally inferior . Augustine's contemporary St. Jerome ( ca. 347-419 ...
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... female behavior in a way that Jesus did not for men . Some of the men most devoted to Mary , such as Bernard of Clairvaux , were also the harshest in their condemnation of all other women . Nevertheless , Mary did provide a female focus ...
... female behavior in a way that Jesus did not for men . Some of the men most devoted to Mary , such as Bernard of Clairvaux , were also the harshest in their condemnation of all other women . Nevertheless , Mary did provide a female focus ...
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... female sex to a body which had been endowed by God with a magnifi- cent virile spirit ? " 5 Christine de Pizan , the first female author to enter this debate , was not content simply to list illustrious women , but explored the reasons ...
... female sex to a body which had been endowed by God with a magnifi- cent virile spirit ? " 5 Christine de Pizan , the first female author to enter this debate , was not content simply to list illustrious women , but explored the reasons ...
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... female rulers to whom they dedicated their works , so it is difficult to ascertain their sincerity ; Agrippa himself had written De nobilitate twenty years before he published it , deciding to publish only when a female monarch to whom ...
... female rulers to whom they dedicated their works , so it is difficult to ascertain their sincerity ; Agrippa himself had written De nobilitate twenty years before he published it , deciding to publish only when a female monarch to whom ...
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... female pride , lasciviousness , obstinacy , desire for mastery , jealousy , talkativeness , vanity , greed , extravagence , infidelity , physical and moral inferority , and caprice . In 1615 Joseph Swetnam published The Arraignment of ...
... female pride , lasciviousness , obstinacy , desire for mastery , jealousy , talkativeness , vanity , greed , extravagence , infidelity , physical and moral inferority , and caprice . In 1615 Joseph Swetnam published The Arraignment of ...
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