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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"early modern women"”.
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"Nor fear I censure" : early modern women writers and issues of authority, 1578-1680.
In the early modern period, women were discouraged from writing for the public sphere; moreover, the genres of history and romance were particularly unwelcoming to women. In this project, I study four works by women who wrote in these male-dominated genres: Margaret Tyler's The Mirror of Princely …
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Gender and Collaboration in Seventeenth-Century English Poetry: Philip and Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer, Katherine Philips and Mary, Lady Chudleigh
… the collaborative poetry and poetics of four early modern women writers: Mary Sidney Herbert (1561-1621), Aemilia Lanyer (1569–1645), Katherine Philips (1631-1664) and Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656 – 1710). It critically recovers women’s poetry and their different modes of literary collaboration …
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An examination of women's piety as depicted in medieval and early modern stained glass.
… of gender and religious piety on expressions of women's agency in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Chapter One introduces Oxfordshire stained glass as the area of inquiry, with the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) database serving as the primary source reference. Both the Centre for …
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Through the Ears to the Soul: Female Musicians in Seventeenth-Century Painting
… reconstructs the experiences of Dutch early modern women both as subjects and viewers. As intersensorial analysis demonstrates, sight was not the only sense artists could call upon to tempt a female buyer or sustain the attention of a female owner. Dutch women looking into these painted …
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Women before the kirk : godly discipline in canongate, 1640-1650
… The records are particularly revealing of early modern gender history as they show how both men and women interacted with the local kirk, and reveal key social trends in the burgh, especially relating to sex and marriage. Illicit sex and its issue – adultery, fornication and illegitimacy – …
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Freedom, Society, And The Individual In Early Modern Women's Thought
… Gabrielle Suchon, Mary Wollstonecraft, and other women of the early modern period in Europe. From these disparate sources—Cavendish’s vitalist metaphysics, Suchon’s practical ethics, Wollstonecraft’s polemical aesthetics—a unifying political concern can be drawn: one of how individuals relate to …
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Curating the collector: exploring representations of early modern German women book collectors (1650-1780)
… representations of book collecting by German women in the early modern period in order to explore the role of gender in this activity. Portrayals of book collectors in the modern and early modern eras offer examples of how this identity is constructed, particularly in the underlying …
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The Quest for Knowledge: Religious Enquiry and Intellectual Discovery in the Works of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza
… Rejecting the conventional paths for early modern women of either marriage or convent life, she decided to devote herself to the cause of the faith in an unconventional way and travelled from Catholic Spain to Protestant England where she undertook missionary work and founded her own …
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"The Island Has Two Sides": Female Subjectivity in Postcolonial Adaptation
… prismatic and prismatism, I am referring to women’s ability to transform or reflect the singular, limited gender role/identity imposed upon her into a vast female spectrum, one which is both varied and unified. In my estimation, thinking of these characters as prismatic allows us to imagine …
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‘Io fui, et sono, et sarò Margarita’: Margherita Costa as Virtuosa on the Literary Stage of the Seicento
… 1654, a period marked by a decline in secular women’s writing in Italy, she produced fourteen full-length printed works across a remarkable range of genres, topics, and registers. Her unique position on the margins of courtly society allowed Costa to move more freely across the literary stage …
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Scottish Noblewomen, the Family and Scottish Politics from 1688-1707
… to stimulate debate. The lives of Scottish noblewomen in the years from Revolution to Union have generally been disregarded. This thesis will demonstrate that acknowledging and exploring the experiences of noblewomen augments understanding of this momentous era. Investigating the lives of …
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AUTHORITATIVE LETTERS JEANNE DE CHANTAL AND FEMININE AUTHORITY IN THE EARLY MODERN CATHOLIC CHURCH
The early modern period of a time of religious renewal and upheaval that resulted in a wealth of new religious orders, particularly those for women. During this period of change, Catholic women responded to the threat of Protestantism by adapting the convent to their own needs. One of the most …