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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.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Diaz, Mónica > (ed.)
- Creator
- Quispe-Agnoli, Rocío > (ed.)
- Contributor
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Shelfmark
- LAT 1C 2017 - B
- Thesaurus
- religie, kolonialisme, slavernij, inheemse volkeren, vroegmoderne periode, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, Latijns-Amerika, bundel
- Description
- Organized according to three themes, 'Censorship and the Body,' 'Female Authority and Legal Discourse' and 'Private Lives and Public Opinions,' the essays in this collection focus on women’s knowledge and the discursive traces of their daily concerns found in various colonial genres. Women are considered as agents of history and as authors of written records produced either by their own hand or by means of dictations, collaborations, or rewritings of their oral renditions. Inhabiting the territories of the Iberian colonies from Peru to New Spain, the women studied in this volume come from different ethnic and social backgrounds, from African slaves to the indigenous elite and to those who arrived from Iberia and were known as 'Old Christians'
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- McTavish, Lianne
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- FR 34 2005
- Thesaurus
- bevallingen, gynaecologie, verloskundigen, mannen, seksualiteit, vrouwenlichamen, vroegmoderne periode, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, Frankrijk
- Description
- Throughout the early modern period in France, surgeon men-midwives were predominantly associated with sexual impropriety and physical danger: yet over time they managed to change their image, and by the eighteenth century were summoned to attend even the uncomplicated deliveries of wealthy, urban clients. In this study, Lianne McTavish explores how surgeons strove to transform the perception of their midwifery practices, claiming to be experts who embodied obstetrical authority instead of intruders in a traditionally feminine domain. .McTavish argues that early modern French obstetrical treatises were sites of display participating in both the production and contestation of authoritative knowledge of childbirth. Though primarily written by surgeon men-midwives, the texts were also produced by female midwives and male physicians. She discovers that male practitioners did not always disdain maternal values. The men regularly identified themselves with qualities traditionally respected in female midwives, including a bodily experience of childbirth. Her findings suggest that men's entry into the lying-in chamber was a complex negotiation involving their adaptation to the demands of women.
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.
mastering memory
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Beasley, Faith E.
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- FR 54 2006
- Thesaurus
- saloncultuur, canons, schrijvers, 17e eeuw, Frankrijk
- Description
- The first half of the book is a detailed study of how the salons influenced the development of literature. Beasley argues that many women were not only writers, they also served as critics for the literary sphere as a whole. In the second half of the book Beasley examines how historians and literary critics subsequently portrayed the seventeenth century literary realm, which became identified with the great reign of Louis XIV and designated the official canon of French literature. Beasley argues that in a rewriting of this past, the salons were reconfigured in order to advance an alternative view of this premier moment of French culture and of the literary masterpieces that developed out of it. .Through her analysis of how the seventeenth century salon has been defined and transmitted to posterity, Beasley illuminates facets of France's collective memory, and the powers that constituted it in the past and that are still working to define it today.
- 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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