THE ROUTLEDGE HISTORY OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe is a comprehensive and ground-breaking survey of the lives of women in early-modern Europe between 1450 and 1750. Covering a period of dramatic political and cultural change, the book challenges the current contours and chronologies of European history by observing them through the lens of female experience. The collaborative research of this book covers four themes: the affective world; practical knowledge for life; politics and religion; arts, science and humanities. These themes are interwoven through the chapters, which encompass all areas of womens lives: sexuality, emotions, health and wellbeing, educational attainment, litigation and the practical and leisured application of knowledge, skills and artistry from medicine to theology. The intellectual lives of women, through reading and writing, and their spirituality and engagement with the material world, are also explored. So too is the sheer energy of female work, including farming and manufacture, skilled craft and artwork, theatrical work and scientific enquiry.
The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe revises the chronological and ideological parameters of early-modern European history by opening the readers eyes to an exciting age of female productivity, social engagement and political activism across European and transatlantic boundaries. It is essential reading for students and researchers of early-modern history, the history of women and gender studies.
Amanda L. Capern is Senior Lecturer at the University of Hull. Her publications include The Historical Study of Women: England, 15001700 (2010) and as editor Women and the Land, 15001900 (2019), as well as essays and articles on the social, economic, legal, intellectual and spiritual lives of early-modern British and European women.
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Names: Capern, Amanda L., editor.
Title: The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe / edited by Amanda L Capern.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge histories |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019032645 (print) | LCCN 2019032646 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: WomenEuropeHistoryModern period, 1500-
Classification: LCC HQ1587 .R67 2019 (print) | LCC HQ1587 (ebook) | DDC 305.4094/0903dc23
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ISBN: 978-0-415-73251-2 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-35578-3 (ebk)
For Glenn and Aubrey
Cover image: Gabriel Metsu, Woman Reading a Book by a Window, (detail), (1050 mm x 907 mm), c. 16531654 (oil on canvas signed in dark paint on white letter, left of red plume: [F?] Gabriel/Metsu). Image courtesy of The Leiden Collection, New York.
Leah Astbury is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge (UK). Previously, she was the Molina Fellow in History of Medicine and Allied Sciences at the Huntington Library, San Marino, and has held fellowships at the Society for Renaissance Studies and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). She has published on childbirth, medicine and the family and is currently completing a monograph on pregnancy, birth and after birth care in early-modern England.
Katie Barclay is Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of Adelaide (Australia), and Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. She is the author of Love, Intimacy and Power: Marriage and Patriarchy in Scotland, 16501850 (2011), Men on Trial: Performing Emotion, Embodiment and Identity in Ireland, 18001845 (2019) and numerous articles and book chapters on family life, emotion and gender. With Andrew Lynch and Giovanni Tarantino, she edits Emotions: History, Culture, Society. Her current work looks at caritas as an emotional ethic for the early-modern European world.
Daisy Black is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Wolverhampton (UK) and is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. She is interested in time and gender in medieval performance and medievalism in modern gaming cultures. Her publications include The Time of the Tree: Returning to Eden after the Fall in the Cornish Creation of the World (2014), Nayles Large and Lang: Masculine Identity and the Anachronic Object in the York Crucifixion Play (2015) and Dressing the Pleasure Garden: Creation, Recreation and Varieties of Pleasure in the Two Texts of the Norwich Grocers Play (2018). She is a theatre practitioner and storyteller and has worked with the Royal College of Physicians and Manchester Cathedral.
