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Informationen zum Autor Karen Nelson is associate director of the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies at the University of Maryland. Klappentext This volume considers women's roles in the conflicts and negotiations of the early modern world. Essays explore the ways that gender shapes women's agency in times of war, religious strife, and economic change. How were conflict and concord gendered in histories, literature, music, and political, legal, didactic, and religious treatises? Four interdisciplinary plenary topics ground this exploration: Negotiations, Economies, Faiths & Spiritualities, and Pedagogies. Scholars focus upon many regions of the early modern world--the Atlantic world, the Mediterranean world, Granada, Indonesia, the Low Countries, England, and Italy--inflected by such religions as Islam, Catholicism, and Reformed Protestantism, as they came into contact with indigenous spiritualities and with one another. Essays and workshop summaries analyze how gender and class are implicated in economic change and assess the ways gender and religion map onto voyages of trade, exploration, or imperialism. They investigate how women, as individuals and as members of political or family networks, were instrumental in transmitting, promoting, supporting, or thwarting different religions during times of religious crises. This volume also offers methods for teaching and researching these topics. It will be invaluable to scholars of medieval and early modern women's studies, especially those working in history, literature, languages, musicology, and religious studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Conflict, Concord: Attending to Early Modern Women. Amy M. FroidePart One: NegotiationsBig Sister as Intermediary: How Maria Rolandus Tried to Win Back Her Wayward Brother. Craig HarlineGetting Past No or Getting to Yes: Nuns, Divas, and Negotiation Tactics in Early Modern Italy Colleen ReardonWorkshop Summaries 1-6Part Two: EconomiesHistory's "Silent Whispers": Representing the Past Through Feeling and Form.Megan MatchinskeColumbus' Sister: Female Agency and Women's Bodies in Early Modern Atlantic and Mediterranean EmpiresHolly HurlburtThe Female Body in Islamic Law and Medicine: Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Pediatrics Maya ShatzmillerWorkshop Summaries 7-10Part Three: Faiths and SpiritualitiesSpaces for Agency: The View from Early Modern Female Religious CommunitiesSilvia EvangelistiMarian Devotion and Identity in Early Modern Indonesia: Mother Maria, Queen of Larantuka Barbara Watson AndayaWorkshop Summaries 11-18Part Four: PedagogiesGender Differentials in Honors Programs and Colleges Susan E. DinanGeoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath (ca. 1395) and Christine de Pizan, from Letter of the God of Love (1399) to City of Ladies (1405): A New Kind of Encounter Between Male and Female Albert Rabil, Jr.Early Modern Amazons: Teaching Conflict in Representation Eleonora StoppinoWorkshop Summaries 19-21IndexAbout the Contributors...
