Attending to Early Modern Women: Conflict and Concord

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Title Page List of Figures List of Tables Introduction Negotiations Big Sister as Intermediary: How Maria Rolandus Tried to Win Back Her Wayward Brother Getting Past No or Getting to Yes: Nuns, Divas, and Negotiation Tactics in Early Modern Italy Workshop Summaries 1–6: Negotiations Economies History’s “Silent Whispers”: Representing the Past Through Feeling and Form Columbus’s Sister: Female Agency and Women’s Bodies in Early Modern Mediterranean and Atlantic Empires The Female Body in Islamic Law and Medicine: Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Pediatrics Workshop Summaries 7–10: Economies Faiths and Spiritualities Spaces for Agency: The View from Early Modern Female Religious Communities Marian Devotion and Identity in Early Modern Indonesia: Mother Maria, Queen of Larantuka Workshop Summaries 11–18: Faiths and Spiritualities Pedagogies Gender Differentials in Honors Programs and Colleges Geoffrey Chaucer, the Wife of Bath (ca. 1395) and Christine de Pizan, from Letter of the God of Love (1399) to City of Ladies (1405): A New Kind of Encounter Between Male and Female Early Modern Amazons: Teaching Conflict in Representation Workshop Summaries 19–21: Pedagogies Index About the Contributors