Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

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This collection argues that gender must be considered as both an approach to history, and as a reflection of the deep workings of the lived, historical past. The sixteen original essays explore social and cultural expressions of gender in Europe from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. They examine theories and practices of gender in domestic, religious, and political contexts, including the Reformation, the convent, the workplace, witchcraft, the household, literacy, the arts, intellectual spheres, and cultures of violence and memory. The volume exposes the myriad ways in which gender was actually experienced, together with the strategies used by individual men and women to negotiate resilient patriarchal structures. Overall, the collection opens up new synergies for thinking about gender as a category of historical analysis and as a set of experiences central to late medieval and early modern Europe. Front matter (“Contents”, “List of Illustrations”, “Introduction”), p. i Free Access Gender Theory and the Study of Early-Modern Europe, p. 7 Merry Wiesner-Hanks https://doi.org/10.1484/M.LMEMS-EB.3.747 Pushing the Boundaries: Argula von Grumbach as a Lutheran Laywoman, 1492–1556/7, p. 25 Peter Matheson https://doi.org/10.1484/M.LMEMS-EB.3.748 A Woman’s Path to Literacy: The Letters of Margherita Datini, 1384–1410, p. 43 Carolyn James https://doi.org/10.1484/M.LMEMS-EB.3.749 Convent Culture in Early-Modern Italy: Laywomen and Religious Subversiveness in a Neapolitan Convent, p. 57 Camilla Russell https://doi.org/10.1484/M.LMEMS-EB.3.750 Gender, Hybridity, and Violence on the Frontiers of Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Ireland, p. 77 Dianne Hall, Elizabeth Malcolm https://doi.org/10.1484/M.LMEMS-EB.3.751 The Queen’s Three Bodies: Gender, Criminality, and Sovereignty in the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, p. 99 Rayne Allinson https://doi.org/10.1484/M.LMEMS-EB.3.752 The Royal Art of Conjugal Discord: A Satirical Double Portrait of Francis I and Eleanor of Austria, p. 117 Lisa Mansfield https://doi.org/10.1484/M.LMEMS-EB.3.753 Engendering Lust in Early-Modern Italy: Pisanello’s Luxuria, p. 137 Catherine Kovesi https://doi.org/10.1484/M.LMEMS-EB.3.754 Cornelius Agrippa’s School of Love: Teaching Plato’s Symposium at the Renaissance University, p. 151 Grantley McDonald https://doi.org/10.1484/M.LMEMS-EB.3.755 ‘The richest man in Italy’: Aldo Manuzio and the Value of Male Friendships, p. 177 Rosa Salzberg https://doi.org/10.1484/M.LMEMS-EB.3.756 Women, Work, and Power in the Female Guilds of Rouen, p. 199 Susan Broomhall https://doi.org/10.1484/M.LMEMS-EB.3.757 Textile Workers, Gender, and the Organization of Production in the Pre-Industrial Dutch Republic, p. 215 Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk https://doi.org/10.1484/M.LMEMS-EB.3.758 Charitable Bodies: Clothing as Charity in Early-Modern Rural England, p. 235 Dolly Mackinnon https://doi.org/10.1484/M.LMEMS-EB.3.759 Commemorating a Mortal Goddess: Maria Salviati de’ Medici and the Cultural Politics of Duke Cosimo I, p. 261 Natalie Tomas https://doi.org/10.1484/M.LMEMS-EB.3.760 Patriarchal Memory: Monuments in Early-Modern England, p. 279 Peter Sherlock https://doi.org/10.1484/M.LMEMS-EB.3.761 Agency, Women, and Witchcraft in Early-Modern England: Rye, 1607–11, p. 301 Elizabeth Kent https://doi.org/10.1484/M.LMEMS-EB.3.762 Reflecting and Creating Gender in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Europe, p. 317 Megan Cassidy-Welch, Peter Sherlock https://doi.org/10.1484/M.LMEMS-EB.3.763 Back matter (“List of Contributors”), p. 327