Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe : 1500 - 1700.
Richards, Penny.
Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe : 1500 - 1700. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (234 pages) - Women and Men in History Series . - Women and Men in History Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Gender and sexuality in early modern England -- How has gender been defined? -- Gender and the body -- Complicating the picture: men, class and sexuality -- 2 Gender and early emancipation in the Low Countries in the late Middle Ages and early modern period -- Introduction -- Gender, marriage and social advancement -- Gender as a feature of economic life -- Violence against women: how to decode the gender factor? -- Gender-based discourse and practice: public morality and the preservation of ethical norms -- Imagining gender: femininity and masculinity in visual arts and fiction -- Conclusions: early emancipation and discrimination in the Low Countries -- 3 'So was thys castell layd wyde open': Battles for the phallus in early modern responses to Chaucer's Pardoner -- 4 The importance of a name: Gender, power and the strategy of naming a child in a noble Italian family: The Martinengo of Brescia -- Introduction -- Names for a surname -- Genealogical charts -- Saints and godfathers, the deceased -- Prestige and heritage: Choices which count -- The right name for the right heir -- The defence of the rule -- Conclusion -- 5 'Our Trinity!': Francis I, Louise of Savoy and Marguerite d'Angoulême -- 6 Elizabeth I as Deborah: Biblical typology, prophecy and political power -- 7 Queen Anna bites back: Protest, effeminacy and manliness at the Jacobean court -- Marriage -- Scotland -- England -- Gender confusion -- 8 Privileges of the soul, pains of the body: Teresa de Jesús, the mystic beatas and the Spanish Inquisition after Trent -- 9 Allarme to England!: Gender and militarism in early modern England -- 10 The Guise women: Politics, war and peace. Making war and playing politics - women's work? -- 1562-98: Civil war, religion and magnate power -- The Guise women and the family network of power -- The Guise women and war -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
Organized into four sections, Courtly Worlds, Religious Experience, Civic Worlds, and Literature and Gender, this original collection provides a contemporary map with which to understand the past. The essays reflect the current trend towards integrating the historical experience of women and men. They focus on key areas of contemporary interest and importance, and incorporate research and research methods that have evolved over the last twenty years.
9781317875512
Europe -- History -- 1648-1715.
Electronic books.
D228 .R53 2014
940.22
Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe : 1500 - 1700. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (234 pages) - Women and Men in History Series . - Women and Men in History Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Gender and sexuality in early modern England -- How has gender been defined? -- Gender and the body -- Complicating the picture: men, class and sexuality -- 2 Gender and early emancipation in the Low Countries in the late Middle Ages and early modern period -- Introduction -- Gender, marriage and social advancement -- Gender as a feature of economic life -- Violence against women: how to decode the gender factor? -- Gender-based discourse and practice: public morality and the preservation of ethical norms -- Imagining gender: femininity and masculinity in visual arts and fiction -- Conclusions: early emancipation and discrimination in the Low Countries -- 3 'So was thys castell layd wyde open': Battles for the phallus in early modern responses to Chaucer's Pardoner -- 4 The importance of a name: Gender, power and the strategy of naming a child in a noble Italian family: The Martinengo of Brescia -- Introduction -- Names for a surname -- Genealogical charts -- Saints and godfathers, the deceased -- Prestige and heritage: Choices which count -- The right name for the right heir -- The defence of the rule -- Conclusion -- 5 'Our Trinity!': Francis I, Louise of Savoy and Marguerite d'Angoulême -- 6 Elizabeth I as Deborah: Biblical typology, prophecy and political power -- 7 Queen Anna bites back: Protest, effeminacy and manliness at the Jacobean court -- Marriage -- Scotland -- England -- Gender confusion -- 8 Privileges of the soul, pains of the body: Teresa de Jesús, the mystic beatas and the Spanish Inquisition after Trent -- 9 Allarme to England!: Gender and militarism in early modern England -- 10 The Guise women: Politics, war and peace. Making war and playing politics - women's work? -- 1562-98: Civil war, religion and magnate power -- The Guise women and the family network of power -- The Guise women and war -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
Organized into four sections, Courtly Worlds, Religious Experience, Civic Worlds, and Literature and Gender, this original collection provides a contemporary map with which to understand the past. The essays reflect the current trend towards integrating the historical experience of women and men. They focus on key areas of contemporary interest and importance, and incorporate research and research methods that have evolved over the last twenty years.
9781317875512
Europe -- History -- 1648-1715.
Electronic books.
D228 .R53 2014
940.22