Women in Renaissance and early modern Europe
By: Christine Meek, editor.
Contributors: Meek, Christine.
Publisher: Four Courts
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Women -- Europe -- History.; Renaissance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: 'A widow of God'? : St. Anne and representations of widowhood in fifteenth-century Florence / Catherine Lawless; title: Men, women and magic : some cases from late medieval Lucca / Christine Meek; title: 'She was usually placed with the great men and leaders of the land in the public assemblies' : Alice Kyteler : a woman of considerable power / Bernadette Williams; title: The gift of a lady : women as patrons in medieval Ireland / Elizabeth McKenna; title: Women and the law in early modern Ireland / Mary O'Dowd; title: Hidden pleasures : the representation of the prostitute in seventeenth-century Dutch painting / Sacha Fegan; title: An unequal law : the enforcement of clausura before and after the Council of Trent / Francesca Medioli; title: Repression or liberation? Notions of the body among the nuns of Port-Royal / Carol Baxter; title: Writing motherhood in the reign of Louis XIV : some fictional and political representations / Susanne Reid; title: Tragic ambiguities : gender and sovereignty in French classical drama / Derval Conroy.