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transnational contexts, cultural conflicts, dynastic continuities
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Cruz, Anne J. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Stampino, Maria Galli > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- Z EUR 1C 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- vorstenhuizen, adel, religieuzen, vroegmoderne periode, Spanje, Portugal, Italië, Oostenrijk, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw, biografische gegevens, bundel
- Description
- The essays in this volume investigate the lives of six Habsburg women who, as queens-consort, queens-regent, a vicereine, and a nun, left an indelible mark on the diplomatic and cultural map of early modern Europe. Contributors examine the national and transnational impact of these notable women through their biographies, and explore how they transferred their cultural, religious, and political traditions as the women moved from one court to another. Early Modern Habsburg Women investigates the complex lives of Philip II's daughter, the Infanta Catalina Micaela (1567-1597): her daughter, Margherita of Savoy, Vicereine of Portugal (1589-1655): and Maria Maddalena of Austria, Grand Duchess of Florence (1589-1631). The second generation of Habsburg women that the volume addresses includes Philip IV's first wife, Isabel of Borbon (1602-1644), who became a Habsburg by marriage: Rudolph II's daughter, Sor Ana Dorotea (1611-1694), the only Habsburg nun in the collection: and Philip IV's second wife, Mariana of Austria (1634-1696), queen-regent and mother to the last Spanish Habsburg.
images, rhetorics, practices
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- Z EUR 34 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- borstvoeding, seksualiteit, riten, islam, rooms-katholicisme, bakers, vroegmoderne periode, middeleeuwen, renaissance, 14e eeuw, 15e eeuw, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- This volume builds on existing scholarship on representations of the breast, the iconography of the Madonna Lactans, allegories of abundance, nature, and charity, women mystics' food-centered practices of devotion, the ubiquitous practice of wet-nursing, and medical theories of conception. It is informed by studies on queer kinship in early modern Europe, notions of sacred eroticism in pre-tridentine Catholicism, feminist investigations of breastfeeding as a sexual practice, and by anthropological and historical scholarship on milk exchange and ritual kinship in ancient Mediterranean and medieval Islamic societies.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Snook, Edith
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 54 2005
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, romans, Verenigd Koninkrijk, vroegmoderne periode, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw
- Description
- Snook looks at depictions of reading in women's printed devotional works, maternal advice books, poetry, and fiction, as well as manuscripts, for evidence of ways in which women conceived of reading in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Among the authors considered are Katherine Parr, Anne Askew, Dorothy Leigh, : Elizabeth Grymeston, Aemelia Lanyer and Mary Wroth. Attentive to contiguities between representations of reading in print and reading practices found in manuscript culture, this book also examines a commonplace book belonging to Anne Cornwallis and a Passion poem presented by Elizabeth Middleton to Sarah Edmondes. .Snook explores how women's representations of reading negotiate the dynamic relationship between the public and private spheres and investigates how women might have been affected by changing ideas about literacy, as well as how they sought to effect change in devotional and literary reading practices.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Broomhall, Susan
- Publish Year
- 2002
- Shelfmark
- B3103 - B
- Thesaurus
- media, literatuur, schrijvers, vroegmoderne periode, 16e eeuw, Frankrijk
- Description
- Broomhall asks whether women's experiences as authors changed when manuscript circulation gave way to the printed book as a standard form of publication. She broadens the concept of publication to include methods of scribal publication, through the circulation and presentation of manuscripts, and expands notions of authorship to incorporate a wide sample group of female writers and publishing experiences. .The study introduces a wide and rich range of unexamined sources on early modern women, using an extensive range of manuscripts and the entire corpus of women's printed texts in sixteenth-century France. The work presents a checklist of all known women's writings in printed texts, from prefaces and laudatory verse to editions of prose and poetry, between 1488 and 1599. This book constitutes the most comprehensive assessment of women's contribution to contemporary publishing yet available.
the uses of a sixteenth-century compendium
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- King, Helen
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 3 2007
- Thesaurus
- verloskundigen, gynaecologie, vrouwenlichamen, baarmoeders, ziekten, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw
- Description
- The Gynaeciorum libri, the 'Books on [the diseases of] women,' a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine.This collection was first published in 1566, with a second edition in 1586/8 and a third, running to 1097 folio pages, in 1597. Helen King concentrates on its reception, looking at a range of different uses of the book in the history of medicine from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Looking at the competition and collaboration among different groups of men involved in childbirth, and between men and women, she demonstrates that arguments about history were as important as arguments about the merits of different designs of forceps. She focuses on the eighteenth century, when the 'man-midwife' William Smellie found his competence to practise challenged on the grounds of his allegedly inadequate grasp of the history of medicine. In his lectures, Smellie remade the 'father of medicine', Hippocrates, as the 'father of midwifery'. The study of these texts results in a fresh perspective on Thomas Laqueur's model of the defeat of the one-sex body in the eighteenth century, and on the origins of gynaecology more generally. King argues that there were three occasions in the history of western medicine on which it was claimed that women's difference from men was so extensive that they required a separate branch of medicine: the fifth century BC, and the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. By looking at all three occasions together, and by tracing the links not only between ancient Greek ideas and their Renaissance rediscovery, but also between the Renaissance compendium and its later owners, King analyzes how the claim of female 'difference' was shaped by specific social and cultural conditions.
medicine and the woman question in early modern France
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kem, Judy
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- FR 39 2019
- Thesaurus
- geestelijke gezondheid, SOA's, medicijnen, vroegmoderne periode, Frankrijk, 15e eeuw, 16e eeuw, literatuuronderzoeken
- Description
- This book examines the role of medicine in the debate on women, known as the querelle des femmes, in early modern France. Questions concerning women's physical makeup and its psychological and moral consequences played an integral role in the querelle. This debate on the status of women and their role in society began in the fifteenth century and continued through the sixteenth and well beyond. In querelle works early modern medicine, women's sexual difference, literary reception, and gendered language often merge. Literary authors perpetuated medical ideas such as the notion of allegedly fatal lovesickness, and physicians published works that included disquisitions on the moral nature of women. . .Judy Kem looks at the writings of Christine de Pizan, Jean Molinet, Symphorien Champier, Jean Lemaire de Belges, and Marguerite de Navarre, examining the role of received medical ideas in the querelle des femmes. Kem reconstructs how these authors interpreted the traditional courtly understanding of women's pity or mercy on a dying lover, their understanding of contemporary debates about women's supposed sexual insatiability and its biological effects on men's lives and fertility, and how erotomania or erotic melancholy was understood as a fatal illness. While the two women who frame this study defended women and based much of what they wrote on personal experience, the three men appealed to male authority and tradition in their writings.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Luckyj, Christina > (ed.) (introd.)
- Creator
- O'Leary, Niamh J. > (ed.) (introd.)
- Creator
- Frye, Susan > (afterw.)
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 54 2017
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, vrouwbeelden, vriendinnen, sociale netwerken, politiek, vroegmoderne periode, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 16e eeuw, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, bundel, essay
- Description
- This publication reevaluates the nature and extent of women’s political alliances, based on archival discoveries as well as new work on politics and law. Grouped into three sections - domestic, court, and kinship alliances - these essays investigate historical documents, drama, and poetry, insisting that female alliances, much like male friendship discourse, had political meaning in early modern England. Female writers discussed are, amongst others, the Cavendish Sisters, Anne Clifford, Aemilia Lanyer, and Katherine Philips.
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