The Youth of Early Modern Women - 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 The Youth of Early Modern Women write by Elizabeth Storr Cohen. This book was released on 2018. The Youth of Early Modern Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through fifteen essays that work from a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a youth. European culture recognised that, between childhood and full adulthood, early modern women experienced distinctive physiological, social, and psychological transformations. Drawing on two mutually shaped layers of inquiry -- cultural constructions of youth and lived experiences -- these essays exploit a wide variety of sources, including literary and autobiographical works, conduct literature, judicial and asylum records, drawings, and material culture. The geographical and temporal ranges traverse England, Ireland, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, and Mexico from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. This volume brings fresh attention to representations of female youth, their own life writings, young women's training for adulthood, courtship, and the emergent sexual lives of young unmarried women.
Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters
Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters - 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 Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters write by Julie D. Campbell. This book was released on 2009. Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offering a comparative and international approach to early modern women's writing, the essays gathered here focus on multiple literatures across Italy, France, England, and the Low Countries. Individual essays investigate women in diverse social classes and life stages, ranging from siblings and mothers to nuns to celebrated writers. The collection overall is invested in crossing geographic, linguistic, political, and religious borders and in exploring familial, political, and religious communities.
Women Writing History in Early Modern England
Women Writing History in Early Modern England - 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 Writing History in Early Modern England write by Megan Matchinske. This book was released on 2009-05-14. Women Writing History in Early Modern England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This title investigates and documents fascinating accounts written by 17th-century Englishwomen, which explore the shifting relationships between past and future.
Manhood in Early Modern England
Manhood in Early Modern England - 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 Manhood in Early Modern England write by Elizabeth A Foyster. This book was released on 2014-09-25. Manhood in Early Modern England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book to focus on the relationships which men formed with their wives in early modern England, making it an important contribution to a new understanding of English, social, family, and gender history. Dr Foyster redresses the balance of historical research which has largely concentrated on the public lives of prominent men. The book looks at youth and courtship before marriage, male fears of their wives' gossip and sexual betrayal, and male friendships before and after marriage. Highlighted throughout is the importance of sexual reputation. Based on both legal records and fictional sources, this is a fascinating insight into the personal lives of ordinary men and women in early modern England.
Society and Culture in Early Modern France
Society and Culture in Early Modern France - 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 Society and Culture in Early Modern France write by Natalie Zemon Davis. This book was released on 1975. Society and Culture in Early Modern France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-century France. The result is a wide-ranging view of the lives and values of men and women (artisans, tradesmen, the poor) who, because they left little or nothing in writing, have hitherto had little attention from scholars. The first three essays consider the social, vocational, and sexual context of the Protestant Reformation, its consequences for urban women, and the new attitudes toward poverty shared by Catholic humanists and Protestants alike in sixteenth-century Lyon. The next three essays describe the links between festive play and youth groups, domestic dissent, and political criticism in town and country, the festive reversal of sex roles and political order, and the ritualistic and dramatic structure of religious riots. The final two essays discuss the impact of printing on the quasi-literate, and the collecting of common proverbs and medical folklore by learned students of the "people" during the Ancien Régime. The book includes eight pages of illustrations.
