Hopkins / Norrie Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-90-485-3917-8
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 7, 250 Seiten

Reihe: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World

Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe examines the lives of women whose gender impeded the exercise of their personal, political, and religious agency, with an emphasis on the conflict that occurred when they crossed the edges society placed on their gender. Many of the women featured in this collection have only been afforded cursory scholarly focus, or the focus has been isolated to a specific, (in)famous event. This collection redresses this imbalance by providing comprehensive discussions of the women’s lives, placing the matter that makes them known to history within the context of their entire life. Focusing on women from different backgrounds -- such as Marie Meurdrac, the French chemist; Anna Trapnel, the Fifth Monarchist and prophetess; and Cecilia of Sweden, princess, margravine, countess, and regent -- this collection brings together a wide range of scholars from a variety of disciplines to bring attention to these previously overlooked women.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hopkins, Lisa

Norrie, Aidan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Early Modern European Women and the Edge Aidan Norrie and Lisa Hopkins Section I: Life on the Edge 2. 'At the mercy of a strange woman': Plague Nurses, Marginality, and Fear during the Great Plague of 1665 Lara Thorpe 3. Chemistry, Medicine, and Beauty on the Edge: Marie Meurdrac Sarah Gordon 4. Anna Stanislawska's Orphan Girl of 1685: Autobiography of a Divorce Lynn Lubamersky Section II: Witchcraft and the Edge 5. Touching on the Margins: Elizabeth Sawyer's Body in Performance and Print Alex MacConochie 6. Anna Trapnel: Prophet or Witch? Debra Parish Section III: Courtly Women on the Edge 7. Wife, Widow, Exiled Queen: Beatrice d'Aragona (1457-1508) and Kinship in Early Modern Europe Jessica O'Leary 8. On the Edge of the S(h)elf: Arbella Stuart Lisa Hopkins 9. Cecilia of Sweden: Princess, Margravine, Countess, Regent Aidan Norrie 10. 'Elizabeth the Forgotten': The Life of Princess Elizabeth Stuart (1635-1650) Jessica L. Becker Epilogue: The Early Modern Edge in the Twenty-first Century 11. Catalina de Erauso-'the Lieutenant Nun'-at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Eva Mendieta Index

Über Autor(innen)

Norrie, Aidan
Aidan Norrie is Lecturer in History and Programme Leader at the University Campus North Lincolnshire and the Managing Editor of The London Journal. Aidan has co-edited several collections, including Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe (2019) and Tudor and Stuart Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty (2022).

Hopkins, Lisa
Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University and co-editor of Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association, of the Arden Early Modern Drama Guides, and of Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama.

Hopkins Lisa:
Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at Sheffield Hallam University and co-editor of Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association, of the Arden Early Modern Drama Guides, and of Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama.Norrie Aidan:
Aidan Norrie is Lecturer in History and Programme Leader at the University Campus North Lincolnshire and the Managing Editor of The London Journal. Aidan has co-edited several collections, including Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe (2019) and Tudor and Stuart Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty (2022).