Women in Early Modern England 1550-1720 019820812X, 9780198208129

This is an original, accessible, and comprehensive survey of life as it was experienced by most Englishwomen during the

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Women in Early Modern England 1550-1720
019820812X, 9780198208129

This concise introduction provides an overview of the state of research on women's history in the early modern peri

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Dreams in Early Modern England offers an in-depth exploration of the variety of different ways in which early modern peo

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Dreams in Early Modern England offers an in-depth exploration of the variety of different ways in which early modern peo

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During the seventeenth century, England was beset by three epidemics of the bubonic plague, each outbreak claiming betwe

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Biblical Women's Voices in Early Modern England documents the extent to which portrayals of women writers, rulers,

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A riveting look at how the early modern world revolutionized sleep and its relation to body, mind, soul, and society

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This collection of essays examines women's involvement in politics in early modern England, as writers, as members

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Translation was a critical mode of discourse for early modern writers. Gifting Translation in Early Modern England: Wome

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The ten essays in this collection explore the discrete yet overlapping female spaces of privacy and domesticity in early

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Shaping Femininity is the first large-scale study of the materiality, production, consumption and meanings of foundation

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