Couchman Jane - The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe

THE ASHGATE RESEARCH COMPANION TO WOMEN AND GENDER IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

The Ashgate Research Companions are designed to offer scholars and graduate students a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in a particular area. The companions editors bring together a team of respected and experienced experts to write chapters on the key issues in their speciality, providing a comprehensive reference to the field.

Edited by

ALLYSON M. POSKA

University of Mary Washington, USA

JANE COUCHMAN

York University, Canada

KATHERINE A. McIVER

University of Alabama, USA

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing

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The Ashgate research companion to women and gender in early modern Europe.

1. WomenEuropeHistoryRenaissance, 14501600. 2. WomenEuropeHistoryModern period, 16003. Sex roleEuropeHistory16th century. 4. Sex roleEuropeHistory17th century.
I. Women and gender in early modern Europe II. Poska, Allyson M. III. Couchman, Jane. IV. McIver, Katherine A.
305.420940903-dc23

The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
The Ashgate research companion to women and gender in early modern Europe / edited by Allyson M. Poska, Jane Couchman and Katherine A. McIver.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-1817-7 (hbk. : alk. paper) 1. WomenEuropeHistory. 2. WomenEuropeSocial conditions. 3. Sex roleEuropeHistory.
I. Poska, Allyson M. II. Couchman, Jane. III. McIver, Katherine A.

HQ1587.A79 2013
305.4094dc23

2012034186

ISBN 9781409418177 (hbk)

Allyson M. Poska, Jane Couchman and Katherine A. McIver

Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt

Alison Weber

Marilyn Dunn

Kimberlyn Montford

Catherine E. King

Susan E. Dinan

Merry Wiesner-Hanks

Jane Couchman

Lianne McTavish

Allyson M. Poska

Jutta Gisela Sperling

Lyndan Warner

Katherine Crawford

Janine M. Lanza

Lynn Botelho

Elizabeth S. Cohen

Carole Levin and Alicia Meyer

Julie D. Campbell

Diana Robin

Alisha Rankin

Sheila ffolliott

Sheryl E. Reiss

Katherine A. McIver

Andrea Pearson

Linda Phyllis Austern

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12.1 Religions in Europe, c. 1555. Saint Marys University Cartographic Services, Halifax, Canada
Photo: Will Flanagan, Saint Marys University Cartographic Services, Halifax, Canada

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Linda Phyllis Austern is Associate Professor of Musicology in the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. Her most recent book is the co-edited collection Psalms in the Early Modern World (Ashgate, 2011).

Lynn Botelho is a University Professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her works include Old Age and the English Poor Law, 15001700 (Boydell and Brewer, 2004); Power and Poverty: Old Age in Pre-Industrial Society, with S. Ottaway and K. Kittredge (Greenwood Press, 2002); Women and Ageing in Britain since 1500, with P. Thane (Addison Wesley Longmans, 2000).

Julie D. Campbell, Professor of English, Eastern Illinois University, is the author of Literary Circles and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2006). With Professor Anne Larsen she has co-edited and contributed to Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters (Ashgate, 2009), and with Professor Maria Galli Stampino, she has co-edited and contributed to In Dialogue with the Other Voice in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Literary and Social Contexts for Womens Writing (Other Voice Series, CRRS, 2011).

Elizabeth S. Cohen is a Professor of History at York University (Toronto). Her research on ordinary women in early modern Rome touches many themes: work, family, street rituals, sexuality, crime, artists, self-representation and orality.

Jane Couchman is Professor Emerita of French and Womens Studies at Glendon College, York University (Toronto). She has published on Louise de Coligny, Catherine de Bourbon, Charlotte de Bourbon-Montpensier, Elonore de Roye and Marguerite de Navarre, and co-edited (with Ann Crabb) Womens Letters Across Europe 14001700: Form and Persuasion (Ashgate, 2005). Her co-authored book (with Colette H. Winn) Autour dlonore de Roye, princesse de Cond is forthcoming in 2012 with Honor Champion (Paris).

Katherine Crawford is Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France (Harvard University Press, 2004) and The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance (Cambridge, 2010).

Susan E. Dinan is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Honors College at William Paterson University in New Jersey. She is author of Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity (Ashgate, 2006), and co-editor with Debra Meyers of Women and Religion in Old and New Worlds (Routledge, 2001).

Marilyn Dunn is an Associate Professor of Art History at Loyola University Chicago. She has published extensively on art and patronage of religious communities in seventeenth-century Rome with a particular emphasis on the role of women and nuns as patrons. Her publications have appeared in The Art Bulletin, Aurora, Women and Art in Early Modern Europe (Penn State Press, 1997) Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2003), and Wives, Widows, Mistresses, and Nuns in Early Modern Europe: Making the Invisible Visible through Art and Patronage (Ashgate, 2012).

Sheila ffolliott is Professor Emerita in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. Recent publications include La Florentine or La bonne Franoise? Some Sixteenth-Century Commentators on Catherine de Medici and her Patronage, in Christina Strunck (ed.)