Women and Gender in the Early Modern World: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
About the Book Series
The study of women and gender offers some of the most vital and innovative challenges to current scholarship on the early modern period. For more than a decade now, Women and Gender in the Early Modern World has served as a forum for presenting fresh ideas and original approaches to the field. Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary in scope, this Routledge series strives to reach beyond geographical limitations to explore the experiences of early modern women and the nature of gender in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. We welcome proposals for both single-author volumes and edited collections which expand and develop this continually evolving field of study.
A Ruler's Consort in Early Modern Germany: Aemilia Juliana of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
1st Edition
By Judith P. Aikin
October 14, 2024
The wives of rulers in early modern Europe did far more than provide heirs for their principalities and adornment for their courts. In this study, Judith Aikin examines the exceptionally well-documented actions of one such woman, Aemilia Juliana of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1637-1706), in order to ...
Anna Maria van Schurman, 'The Star of Utrecht': The Educational Vision and Reception of a Savante
1st Edition
By Anne R. Larsen
October 14, 2024
Dutch Golden Age scholar Anna Maria van Schurman was widely regarded throughout the seventeenth century as the most learned woman of her age. She was 'The Star of Utrecht','The Dutch Minerva','The Tenth Muse', 'a miracle of her sex', 'the incomparable Virgin', and 'the oracle of Utrecht'. As the ...
Art, Gender and Religious Devotion in Grand Ducal Tuscany
1st Edition
By Alice E. Sanger
October 14, 2024
Art, Gender and Religious Devotion in Grand Ducal Tuscany focuses on the intersection of the visual and the sacred at the Medici court of the later sixteenth to early seventeenth centuries in relation to issues of gender. Through a series of case studies carefully chosen to highlight key roles and ...
Baptist Women's Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680
1st Edition
By Rachel Adcock
October 14, 2024
Although literary-historical studies have often focused on the range of dissenting religious groups and writers that flourished during the English Revolution, they have rarely had much to say about seventeenth-century Baptists, or, indeed, Baptist women. Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary ...
Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World
1st Edition
Edited
By Alison Weber
October 14, 2024
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 ...
Early Modern Habsburg Women: Transnational Contexts, Cultural Conflicts, Dynastic Continuities
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne J. Cruz, Maria Galli Stampino
October 14, 2024
As the first comprehensive volume devoted entirely to women of both the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg royal dynasties spanning the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, this interdisciplinary collection illuminates their complex and often contradictory political functions and their ...
Early Modern Women in the Low Countries: Feminizing Sources and Interpretations of the Past
1st Edition
By Susan Broomhall, Jennifer Spinks
October 14, 2024
Combining historical, historiographical, museological, and touristic analysis, this study investigates how late medieval and early modern women of the Low Countries expressed themselves through texts, art, architecture and material objects, how they were represented by contemporaries, and how they ...
Gender, Sexuality, and Material Objects in English Renaissance Verse
1st Edition
By Pamela S. Hammons
October 14, 2024
An important contribution to recent critical discussions about gender, sexuality, and material culture in Renaissance England, this study analyzes female- and male-authored lyrics to illuminate how gender and sexuality inflected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets' conceptualization of ...
Guardianship, Gender, and the Nobility in Early Modern Spain
1st Edition
By Grace E. Coolidge
October 14, 2024
Contrary to early modern patriarchal assumptions, this study argues that rather trying to impose obedience or enclosure on women of their own rank and status, noblemen in early modern Spain depended on the active collaboration of noblewomen to maintain and expand their authority, wealth, and ...
Imagining Women's Conventual Spaces in France, 1600�1800: The Cloister Disclosed
1st Edition
By Barbara R. Woshinsky
October 14, 2024
Blending history and architecture with literary analysis, this ground-breaking study explores the convent's place in the early modern imagination. The author brackets her account between two pivotal events: the Council of Trent imposing strict enclosure on cloistered nuns, and the French Revolution...
Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga: Power Sharing at the Italian Renaissance Court
1st Edition
By Sarah D.P. Cockram
October 14, 2024
In the first book systematically to give evidence of conjugal co-rule at an Italian Renaissance court, and the first full length scholarly study of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, Sarah Cockram shows their relationship in an entirely new light. The book draws on (and presents) a large amount...
Learning and Literacy in Female Hands, 1520-1698
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Mazzola
October 14, 2024
Focusing on the unusual learning and schooling of women in early modern England, this study explores how and why women wrote, the myriad forms their alphabets could assume, and the shape which vernacular literacy acquired in their hands. Elizabeth Mazzola argues that early modern women's writings ...