In this informative and lively volume, Margaret L. King synthesizes
a large body of literature on the condition of western European
women in the Renaissance centuries (1350-1650), crafting a
much-needed and unified overview of women's experience in
Renaissance society.
Utilizing the perspectives of social, church, and intellectual
history, King looks at women of all classes, in both usual and
unusual settings. She first describes the familial roles filled by
most women of the day--as mothers, daughters, wives, widows, and
workers. She turns then to that significant fraction of women in,
and acted upon, by the church: nuns, uncloistered holy women,
saints, heretics, reformers, and witches, devoting special
attention to the social and economic independence monastic life
afforded them. The lives of exceptional women, those warriors,
queens, patronesses, scholars, and visionaries who found some other
place in society for their energies and strivings, are explored,
with consideration given to the works and writings of those first
protesting female subordination: the French Christine de Pizan, the
Italian Modesta da Pozzo, the English Mary Astell.
Of interest to students of European history and women's studies,
King's volume will also appeal to general readers seeking an
informative, engaging entrance into the Renaissance period.
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