Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women: Pawns or Players?
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
Table of contents: title: 1. Flood, 'A source for the depiction of Eve in the early-modern period: Biblical Latin epics of the fifth and sixth centuries'; title: 2. de Trafford, 'The marriage portion, inheritance and family politics'; title: 3. Smith, 'Women and the conquest of Ireland, 1170-1240'; title: 4. Kenny, 'The importance of dower in the lives of medieval women in Ireland'; title: 5. Webb, 'Women travellers in the middle ages'; title: 6. LoPrete, 'The gender of lordly women: the case of Adela of Blois'; title: 7. Lawless, 'The 'beloved' and the 'mistress' in Renaissance Florence'; title: 8. Hall, 'Women and violence in late medieval Ireland'; title: 9. Ó Hannracháin, 'Irish women and the Catholic Reformation'; title: 10. Baxter, 'The role of sisterhood in sustaining resistance by the Port-Royal community'; title: 11. Riches, 'The iconography of the feminized monster'