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An important contribution to growing scholarship on women's
participation in literary cultures, this essay collection
concentrates on cross-national communities of letters to offer a
comparative and international approach to early modern women's
writing. The essays gathered here focus on multiple literatures
from several countries, ranging from Italy and France to the Low
Countries and England. Individual essays investigate women in
diverse social classes and life stages, ranging from siblings and
mothers to nuns to celebrated writers; the collection overall is
invested in crossing geographic, linguistic, political, and
religious borders and exploring familial, political, and religious
communities. Taken together, these essays offer fresh ways of
reading early modern women's writing that consider such issues as
the changing cultural geographies of the early modern world,
women's bilingualism and multilingualism, and women's sense of
identity mediated by local, regional, national, and transnational
affiliations and conflicts.
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
An important contribution to growing scholarship on women's
participation in literary cultures, this essay collection
concentrates on cross-national communities of letters to offer a
comparative and international approach to early modern women's
writing. The essays gathered here focus on multiple literatures
from several countries, ranging from Italy and France to the Low
Countries and England. Individual essays investigate women in
diverse social classes and life stages, ranging from siblings and
mothers to nuns to celebrated writers; the collection overall is
invested in crossing geographic, linguistic, political, and
religious borders and exploring familial, political, and religious
communities. Taken together, these essays offer fresh ways of
reading early modern women's writing that consider such issues as
the changing cultural geographies of the early modern world,
women's bilingualism and multilingualism, and women's sense of
identity mediated by local, regional, national, and transnational
affiliations and conflicts.
Dutch Golden Age scholar Anna Maria van Schurman was widely
regarded throughout the seventeenth century as the most learned
woman of her age. She was 'The Star of Utrecht','The Dutch
Minerva','The Tenth Muse', 'a miracle of her sex', 'the
incomparable Virgin', and 'the oracle of Utrecht'. As the first
woman ever to attend a university, she was also the first to
advocate, boldly, that women should be admitted into universities.
A brilliant linguist, she mastered some fifteen languages. She was
the first Dutch woman to seek publication of her correspondence.
Her letters in several languages Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and French -
to the intellectual men and women of her time reveal the breadth of
her interests in theology, philosophy, medicine, literature,
numismatics, painting, sculpture, embroidery, and instrumental
music. This study addresses Van Schurman's transformative
contribution to the seventeenth-century debate on women's
education. It analyses, first, her educational philosophy; and,
second, the transnational reception of her writings on women's
education, particularly in France. Anne Larsen explores how, in
advocating advanced learning for women, Van Schurman challenged the
educational establishment of her day to allow women to study all
the arts and the sciences. Her letters offer fascinating insights
into the challenges that scholarly women faced in the early modern
period when they sought to define themselves as intellectuals,
writers, and thoughtful contributors to the social good.
The present volume covers 30 Pre-Revolutionary French women,
providing a representative sampling of their manifold and varied
contributions to intellectual and cultural history. This volume is
unique in its grouping of essentially French writers from the
Pre-Revolutionary period. The authors included here range from
those prominent because of their social position or literary fame,
to those slowly becoming part of a new canon of Old Regime women
writers - authors whose works were known to their contemporaries
but who have slipped into near invisibility in the following
centuries until their recent rediscovery and reassessment.
Anna Maria van Schurman was widely regarded as the most erudite
woman in seventeenth-century Europe. As "the Star of Utrecht," she
was active in a network of learning that included the most renowned
scholars of her time. Known for her extensive learning and her
defense of the education of women, she was the first woman to sit
in on lectures at a university in the Netherlands and to advocate
that women be admitted into universities. She was proficient in
fourteen languages, including Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac,
Aramaic, Persian, Samaritan, and Ethiopian, as well as several
vernacular European languages. This volume presents in translation
a remarkable collection of her letters and poems-many of which were
previously unpublished-that span almost four decades of her life,
from 1631 to 1669.
This work is a revealing combination of biographies and topical
essays that describe the outstanding and often-overlooked
contributions of women to the science, politics, and culture of the
Renaissance. Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy,
France, and England is the first first comprehensive reference
devoted exclusively to the contributions of women to European
culture in the period between 1350 and 1700. Focusing principally
on early modern women in England, France, and Italy, it offers over
135 biographies of the extraordinary women of those times.
Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance provides vivid portraits
of well known women such as Catherine of Siena, Joan of Arc, Mary
Queen of Scots, and Christine de Pizan. Also included are less
familiar but equally important women like Elena Lucrezia Cornaro,
the first woman in Europe to earn a doctorate; the renowned
Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi; and the acclaimed author
of medical textbooks and midwife to a French queen, Louise
Boursier. Based on the latest research and enhanced with thematic
essays, this groundbreaking work casts our understanding of women's
lives and roles in Renaissance history and culture in a provocative
new light.
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