Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance write by Anne R. Larsen. This book was released on 2007-03-01. Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work is a revealing combination of biographies and topical essays that describe the outstanding and often-overlooked contributions of women to the science, politics, and culture of the Renaissance. Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England is the first first comprehensive reference devoted exclusively to the contributions of women to European culture in the period between 1350 and 1700. Focusing principally on early modern women in England, France, and Italy, it offers over 135 biographies of the extraordinary women of those times. Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance provides vivid portraits of well known women such as Catherine of Siena, Joan of Arc, Mary Queen of Scots, and Christine de Pizan. Also included are less familiar but equally important women like Elena Lucrezia Cornaro, the first woman in Europe to earn a doctorate; the renowned Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi; and the acclaimed author of medical textbooks and midwife to a French queen, Louise Boursier. Based on the latest research and enhanced with thematic essays, this groundbreaking work casts our understanding of women's lives and roles in Renaissance history and culture in a provocative new light.
Women in the Renaissance: an Encyclopedia
Women in the Renaissance: an Encyclopedia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in the Renaissance: an Encyclopedia write by Josephine Roberts. This book was released on 2004-11-11. Women in the Renaissance: an Encyclopedia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance: Abrabanel-civility
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance: Abrabanel-civility - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of the Renaissance: Abrabanel-civility write by Paul F. Grendler. This book was released on 1999. Encyclopedia of the Renaissance: Abrabanel-civility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Review: "Conceived and produced in association with the Renaissance society of America, this work presents a panoramic view of the cultural movement and the period of history beginning in Italy from approximately 1350, broadening geographically to include the rest of Europe by the middle-to-late-15th century, and ending in the early 17th century. Each of the nearly 1,200 entries provides a learned and succinct account suitable for inquiring readers at several levels. These readable essays covering the arts and letters, in addition to everyday life, will be appreciated by general readers and high-school students. The thoughtful analyses will enlighten college students and delight scholars. A selective bibliography of primary and secondary sources for further study follows each article."--"Outstanding reference sources 2000", American Libraries, May 2000. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.
Women and Gender in Medieval Europe
Women and Gender in Medieval Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Gender in Medieval Europe write by Margaret Schaus. This book was released on 2006. Women and Gender in Medieval Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher description
Women of the Renaissance
Women of the Renaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women of the Renaissance write by Margaret L. King. This book was released on 2008-04-10. Women of the Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this informative and lively volume, Margaret L. King synthesizes a large body of literature on the condition of western European women in the Renaissance centuries (1350-1650), crafting a much-needed and unified overview of women's experience in Renaissance society. Utilizing the perspectives of social, church, and intellectual history, King looks at women of all classes, in both usual and unusual settings. She first describes the familial roles filled by most women of the day—as mothers, daughters, wives, widows, and workers. She turns then to that significant fraction of women in, and acted upon, by the church: nuns, uncloistered holy women, saints, heretics, reformers,and witches, devoting special attention to the social and economic independence monastic life afforded them. The lives of exceptional women, those warriors, queens, patronesses, scholars, and visionaries who found some other place in society for their energies and strivings, are explored, with consideration given to the works and writings of those first protesting female subordination: the French Christine de Pizan, the Italian Modesta da Pozzo, the English Mary Astell. Of interest to students of European history and women's studies, King's volume will also appeal to general readers seeking an informative, engaging entrance into the Renaissance period.
