The Lost Tapestries Of The City Of Ladies
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The Lost Tapestries Of The City Of Ladies
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Author : Susan Groag Bell
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2004-11-29
The Lost Tapestries Of The City Of Ladies written by Susan Groag Bell and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-29 with History categories.
Like a particularly good detective story, this richly textured book follows tantalizing clues in its hunt for a group of missing artistic masterpieces. Susan Bell recounts both her long search for a series of sixteenth-century tapestries that celebrated women and her efforts to understand their meaning for Queen Elizabeth I of England and the other powerful women who owned them. Opening a new window on the lives of noblewomen in the Renaissance, the brilliantly colored tapestries that were the ultimate artistic luxury of the day, and the popular and influential fourteenth-century writer Christine de Pizan, Bell pursues a compelling tale that moves from centuries past to today. The tapestries around which this story revolves are linked to Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies (1405), orginally published six hundred years ago in 1405. The book is a tribute to women that honors two hundred female warriors, scientists, queens, philosophers, and builders of cities. Though twenty-five manuscripts of the City of Ladies still exist, references to tapestries based on the book are elusive. Bell takes us along as she tracks down records of six sets of tapestries whose owners included Elizabeth I of England; Margaret of Austria; and Anne of Brittany, Queen of France. Bell examines the intriguing details of these women's lives—their arranged marriages, their power, their affairs of state—asking what interest they had in owning these particular tapestries. Could the tapestries have represented their thinking? As she reveals the historical, linguistic, and cultural aspects of this unique story, Bell also gives a fascinating account of medieval and early-Renaissance tapestry production and of Christine de Pizan's remarkable life and legacy.
The Oxford Handbook Of Early Modern Women S Writing In English 1540 1700
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Author : Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-09-22
The Oxford Handbook Of Early Modern Women S Writing In English 1540 1700 written by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 brings together new work by scholars across the globe, from some of the founding figures in early modern women's writing to those early in their careers and defining the field now. It investigates how and where women gained access to education, how they developed their literary voice through varied genres including poetry, drama, and letters, and how women cultivated domestic and technical forms of knowledge from recipes and needlework to medicines and secret codes. Chapters investigate the ways in which women's writing was an integral part of the intellectual culture of the period, engaging with male writers and traditions, while also revealing the ways in which women's lives and writings were often distinctly different, from women prophetesses to queens, widows, and servants. It explores the intersections of women writing in English with those writing in French, Spanish, Latin, and Greek, in Europe and in New England, and argues for an archipelagic understanding of women's writing in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and England. Finally, it reflects on—and challenges—the methodologies which have developed in, and with, the field: book and manuscript history, editing, digital analysis, premodern critical race studies, network theory, queer theory, and feminist theory. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 captures the most innovative work on early modern women's writing in English at present.
Emblems In Scotland
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Author : Michael Bath
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-07-03
Emblems In Scotland written by Michael Bath and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-03 with History categories.
Emblems in the visual arts use motifs which have meanings, and in this ground-breaking, richly illustrated book Michael Bath, leading authority on Renaissance emblem books, shows how such symbolic motifs in Scotland address major historical issues of Anglo-Scottish relations.
English Women S Spiritual Utopias 1400 1700
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Author : Alexandra Verini
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-06-06
English Women S Spiritual Utopias 1400 1700 written by Alexandra Verini and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood uncovers a tradition of women’s utopianism that extends back to medieval women’s monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More. As enclosed spaces in which women wielded authority that was unavailable to them in the outside world, medieval and early modern convents were self-consciously engaged in reworking pre-existing cultural heritage to project desired proto-feminist futures. The utopianism developed within the English convent percolated outwards to unenclosed women's spiritual communities such as Mary Ward's Institute of the Blessed Virgin and the Ferrar family at Little Gidding. Convent-based utopianism further acted as an unrecognized influence on the first English women’s literary utopias by authors such as Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell. Collectively, these female communities forged a mode of utopia that drew on the past to imagine new possibilities for themselves as well as for their larger religious and political communities. Tracking utopianism from the convent to the literary page over a period of 300 years, New Kingdoms writes a new history of medieval and early modern women’s intellectual work and expands the concept of utopia itself.
Women Of God And Arms
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Author : Nancy Bradley Warren
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2011-06-03
Women Of God And Arms written by Nancy Bradley Warren and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
The religious and political spheres of the later medieval and early modern periods were tightly and indisputably interwoven, as illustrated by the papal schism, the Hundred Years War, the Reconquest of Spain, and the English Reformation. In these events as well as in the larger religiopolitical systems in which they unfolded, female saints, devout lay women, and monastic women played central roles. In Women of God and Arms, Nancy Bradley Warren explores the political dimensions of the religious practices of women ranging from St. Colette of Corbie to Isabel of Castile to English nuns exiled during the reign of Elizabeth I. Just as religious and political systems were bound up with one another, so too were the internal and external politics of England and several continental realms. Blood and marriage connected the English dynasties of Lancaster and York with those of France, Burgundy, Flanders, and Castile, creating tangled networks of alliances and animosities. In addition to being linked through ties of kinship, these realms were joined by frequent textual and cultural exchanges. Warren draws upon a wide variety of sources—hagiography, chronicles, monastic records, devotional treatises, military manuals, political propaganda, and texts traditionally designated as literary—as she examines the ways manifestations of female spirituality operated at the intersections of civic, international, and ecclesiastical politics. Her exploration breaches boundaries separating the medieval and the early modern, the religious and the secular, the material and the symbolic, the literary and the historical, as it sheds new light on well-known figures such as Joan of Arc, Isabel of Castile, and Elizabeth I.
A History Of Women S Political Thought In Europe 1400 1700
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Author : Jacqueline Broad
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-22
A History Of Women S Political Thought In Europe 1400 1700 written by Jacqueline Broad and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-22 with History categories.
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Mademoiselle De Montpensier
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Author : Sophie Maríñez
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-08-28
Mademoiselle De Montpensier written by Sophie Maríñez and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Mademoiselle de Montpensier: Writings, Châteaux, and Female Self-Construction in Early Modern France examines questions of self-construction and pro-women advocacy through the memoirs, novels, and châteaux of the wealthiest unmarried woman in seventeenth-century Europe.
Republic Of Women
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Author : Carol Pal
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-06-07
Republic Of Women written by Carol Pal and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-07 with History categories.
Carol Pal reconstructs a forgotten network of female scholars and rewrites the intellectual biography of the seventeenth-century republic of letters.
A History Of Early Modern Women S Literature
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Author : Patricia Phillippy
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-18
A History Of Early Modern Women S Literature written by Patricia Phillippy and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-18 with History categories.
This book contains expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women's literary and textual production from the Reformation to the Restoration.
Retire And Go
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Author : Russ Firlik
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-05-05
Retire And Go written by Russ Firlik and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-05 with Travel categories.
Millions of individuals retire each year, and retirement provides an opportunity for a fresh start. The possibilities are endless--even on a budget--for those prepared to open their minds and dream big. Russ and Emily Firlik, who had just retired from teaching, dared to rethink their more traditional retirement plans to embark on 9 months of slow travel in France and Italy, keeping a strict budget in mind and guided by their passion for the arts, history and architecture. This memoir details the author's personal travel experience and includes insights and instructions for the thrifty long-term traveler. It will inspire others to dream big and plan their own adventures, while helping them with the practical details of sticking to a budget and anticipating the unexpected.