This collection of essays examines women's involvement in politics in early modern England, as writers, as members of kinship and patronage networks, and as pet

Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves examines the textured interrelations between medical writing about generation and childbirth - what we now call reproducti

How were cultural, political, and social identities formed in the early modern period? How were they maintained? What happened when they were contested? What me

An investigation of a wide range of contemporary sources, from domestic conduct guides to emblem books, this study offers fresh perspectives on both culture and