Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern

This is a new collection of essays by leading scholars of the social, political, economic and cultural situation of women and men in early modern Europe. Organized into four sections, Courtly Worlds, Religious Experience, Civic Worlds, and Literature and Gender, this original collection provides a contemporary map with which to understand the past. The essays reflect the current trend towards integrating the historical experience of women and men. They focus on key areas of contemporary interest and importance, and incorporate research and research methods that have evolved over the last twenty years. The collection provides examples of the major approaches - gender studies, family studies, studies of religion and popular culture and brings together studies of significant figures and studies of the everyday - eg: Louise of Savoy, Elizabeth I, women and courts. The essays incorporate all the latest research and themes/topics of current interest - interdisciplinary approach . For those interested in gender history.

Penny Richards is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Gloucestershire.

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction	p. 1
Gender and sexuality in early modern England	p. 7
Gender and early emancipation in the Low Countries in the late Middle Ages and early modern period	p. 21
'So was thys castell layd wyde open': Battles for the phallus in early modern responses to Chaucer's Pardoner	p. 40
The importance of a name: Gender, power and the strategy of naming a child in a noble Italian family: The Martinengo of Brescia	p. 55
'Our Trinity!': Francis I, Louise of Savoy and Marguerite d'Angouleme	p. 71
Elizabeth I as Deborah: Biblical typology, prophecy and political power	p. 90
Queen Anna bites back: Protest, effeminacy and manliness at the Jacobean court	p. 108
Privileges of the soul, pains of the body: Teresa de Jesus, the mystic beatas and the Spanish Inquisition after Trent	p. 123
Allarme to England!: Gender and militarism in early modern England	p. 140
The Guise women: Politics, war and peace	p. 159
Notes	p. 171
Select Bibliography	p. 208
Index	p. 211
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Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe: 1500 - 1700

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