Through fifteen essays that work from a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a y
Offering a comparative and international approach to early modern women's writing, the essays gathered here focus on multiple literatures across Italy, France,
This is the first book to focus on the relationships which men formed with their wives in early modern England, making it an important contribution to a new und
These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-century France.
This book examines the lives of women whose gender impeded the exercise of their personal, political, and religious agency, especially when they were expected t