sisters, brothers and others
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Miller, Naomi J. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Yavneh, Naomi > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Spalding, Almut
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 35 2006
- Thesaurus
- vrouwbeelden, broers, zusters, vroegmoderne periode, Europa, bundel
- Description
- The book explores how Renaissance women and men defined themselves in relation to those they called their sisters and brothers. Exploring a wide range of cultural documents, including manuscripts of uncensored letters from a Spanish nun to brothers helping her with her ambition to become a saint, crossing borders from Spain to Italy, France, Germany, and England, as well as dividing Protestants from Catholics, the essays collected in this volume work together to create a complex picture of siblings interacting with each other. Love (including incest), competition, mutual support in activities from childbirth through musical performance to collaborative authorship.