Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640
Title | Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640 PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Peters |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2017-03-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230212786 |
Although in its infancy, the history of women in Wales and Scotland before and during the Reformation is now thriving. A longer tradition of historical studies has shed light on many areas of women's experience in England. Drawing on this historiography, Christine Peters examines the significance of contrasting social, economic and religious conditions in shaping the lives of women in Britain. Gender assumptions were broadly similar in England, Wales and Scotland, but female experience varied widely. Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640 explores how this was influenced by various factors, including changes in clanship and inheritance, the employment of single women, the punishment of pregnant brides and scolds, the introduction of Protestantism, and the fusion of fairy beliefs with ideas of demonological witchcraft. Peters' text is the first comparative survey and analysis of the diversity of women's lives in Britain during the early modern period.
Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640
Title | Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640 PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Peters |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2017-03-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1350317292 |
Although in its infancy, the history of women in Wales and Scotland before and during the Reformation is now thriving. A longer tradition of historical studies has shed light on many areas of women's experience in England. Drawing on this historiography, Christine Peters examines the significance of contrasting social, economic and religious conditions in shaping the lives of women in Britain. Gender assumptions were broadly similar in England, Wales and Scotland, but female experience varied widely. Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640 explores how this was influenced by various factors, including changes in clanship and inheritance, the employment of single women, the punishment of pregnant brides and scolds, the introduction of Protestantism, and the fusion of fairy beliefs with ideas of demonological witchcraft. Peters' text is the first comparative survey and analysis of the diversity of women's lives in Britain during the early modern period.
Women In Early Modern England, 1500-1700
Title | Women In Early Modern England, 1500-1700 PDF eBook |
Author | Jacqueline Eales |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 135 |
Release | 2005-08-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135367728 |
This concise introduction provides an overview of the state of research on women's history in the early modern period. It emcompasses a guide to the historiography, an assessment of the major debates, and information about the varied sources available for women's history in this period. Arranged around familiar themes - the family, work, religion, education - the book presents a comprehensive survey of the social, economic and political position of women in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720
Title | Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720 PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Heller Mendelson |
Publisher | Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
This is an original, accessible, and comprehensive survey of life as it was experienced by most Englishwomen during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The authors examine virtually all aspects of women's lives: female life-stages from birth to death; the separate culture of women, including female friendship and feminist consciousness; the diverse roles of women in the religious and political movements of the day; and the effect of prevailing perceptions of gender differences. Comparisons are made between the makeshift economy of poor women and the occupational identities, and preoccupations, of the middling and elite classes. This fascinating and well-illustrated book reconstructs the mental and material world of Tudor and Stuart women. It will become the standard text on the subject.
Women and Property
Title | Women and Property PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Louise Erickson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2002-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134785577 |
This ground-breaking book reveals the economic reality of ordinary women between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. Drawing on little-known sources, Amy Louise Erickson reconstructs day-to-day lives, showing how women owned, managed and inherited property on a scale previously unrecognised. Her complex and fascinating research, which contrasts the written laws with the actual practice, completely revises the traditional picture of women's economic status in pre-industrial England. Women and Property is essential reading for anyone interested in women, law and the past.
Women, Reform and Community in Early Modern England
Title | Women, Reform and Community in Early Modern England PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Franklin-Harkrider |
Publisher | Boydell Press |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781843833659 |
"Katherine Willoughby, duchess of Suffolk, was one of the highest-ranking noblewomen in sixteenth-century England. She wielded considerable political power in her local community and at court, and her social status and her commitment to religious reform placed her at the centre of the political and religious developments that shaped the English Reformation." "By focusing on her kinship and patronage network, this book offers an examination of the development of Protestantism in the governing classes during the period. The importance of gender in the process of spiritual transformation emerges clearly from this study, showing how the changing religious climate provided new opportunities for women to exert greater influence in their society."--BOOK JACKET.
Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450-1700
Title | Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450-1700 PDF eBook |
Author | James Daybell |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
A blend of traditional Tudor history and insights from feminist theory this volume is not a definitive study of women and politics. Rather it presents essays that are concerned with socially elite women, well-connected aristocrats and literate women of the 'middling sort' during the early modern period.