This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The first major work on noblewomen in the twelfth centu

Elizabeth I was born into a world of women.As a child, she was served by a predominantly female household of servants and governesses, with occasional visits fr

This collection of essays focuses on how women born before the nineteenth century have claimed a place in history and how they have been represented in the coll

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This work, based on archival research, combines a collective portrait of aristocratic women with an analysis of the particular, class-specific form of patriarch