Women, identities and communities in early modern Europe /
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Aldershot, England :
Ashgate,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Real and imagined communities in the lives of women in seventeenth-century Ireland : identity and gender / Anne Laurence
- 2. The abuse of history? : identity politics, disordered identity and the 'really real' in French cases of demonic possession / Sarah Ferber
- 3. 'In myn own house' : the troubled connections between servant marriages, late-medieval English household communities and early modern historiography / Philippa Maddern
- 4. Recusants, daughters and sisters in Christ : English nuns and their communities in the seventeenth century / Claire Walker
- 5. 'Charity is worth it when it looks that good' : rural women and bequests of clothing in early modern England / Dolly MacKinnon
- 6. Female magic and women's social relations in eighteenth-century Sweden / Jacqueline Van Gent
- 7. The Gorgon of Augsburg / Lyndal Roper
- 8. Giving birth at the magistrate's gate : single mothers in the early modern city / Laura Gowing
- 9. Neighbourhood as female community in the life of Anne Dormer / Sara Mendelson
- 10. A revolution correspondence : Elizabeth Packer Geddes and Elizabeth Burnet / Frances Harris
- 11. Gendering the culture of honour at the fifteenth-century Burgundian court / Susan Broomhall
- 12. Public identity and public memory : case studies of two Tudor women / Judith M. Richards
- 13. In praise of queens : the public presentation of the virtuous consort in seventeenth-century Britain / Sybil Jack.