Women in renaissance and early modern Europe /
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Dublin :
Four Courts,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. 'A widow of God'? St. Anne and representations of widowhood in fifteenth-century Florence / Catherine Lawless
- 2. Men, women and magic: some cases from late medieval Lucca / Christine Meek
- 3. '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
- 4. The gift of a lady: women as patrons in medieval Ireland / Elizabeth McKenna
- 5. Women and the law in early modern Ireland / Mary O'Dowd
- 6. Hidden pleasures: the representation of the prostitute in seventeenth-century Dutch painting / Sacha Fegan
- 7. An unequal law: the enforcement of clausura before and after the Council of Trent / Francesca Medioli
- 8. Repression or liberation? Notions of the body among the nuns of Port-Royal / Carol Baxter
- 9. Writing motherhood in the reign of Louis XIV: some fictional and political representations / Susanne Reid
- 10. Tragic ambiguities: gender and sovereignty in French classical drama / Derval Conroy.