Women and gender in the early modern Low countries 1500-1750
"Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750 brings together research on women and gender across the Low Countries, a culturally contiguous region that was split by the Eighty Years War into the Protestant Dutch Republic in the north and the Spanish-controlled, Catholic Hapsbu...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden
Brill
[2019], 2019
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| Series: | Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- The problem of women's agency in late medieval and early modern Europe / Martha Howell
- Women's writing during the Dutch revolt: the religious authority and political agenda of the devout Teellinck women in zierikzee, 1554-1625 / Amanda Pipkin
- The maid of Holland and her heroic heiresses / Martha Moffitt Peacock
- The absent made present: portraying nuns in the early modern Low countries / Margit Thofner
- Women writers and the Dutch stage: public femininity in the plays of Verwers and Questiers / Martine van Elk
- Anna Francisca de Bruyns (1604/5-1656), artist, wife and mother: a contextual approach to her forgotten artistic career / Katlijne Van der Stighelen
- Foregrounding the background: images of Dutch and Flemish household servants / Diane Wolfthal
- Resurrecting the 'spiritual daughters': the Houtappel Chapel and women's patronage of Jesuit building programs in the Spanish Netherlands / Sarah Joan Moran