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Product Description: The querelle des femmes was a debate over the condition of women in society lasting four centuries and characteristically involved charges against female vice, folly, corruption, incontinence and lasciviousness, countered by pro-women defences and lists of exemplary women...read more

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Product Description: Almanacs were highly influential on popular opinion during the early modern period. They were the least expensive kinds of books and had a practical use as a calendar, literary miscellany, weather guide and advertising medium. The almanacs in this volume contribute to our understanding of women's participation in popular culture, astrology, medicine and prophecy...read more

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Product Description: Printed Writings 1500-1640, Series I, Part Two consists of thirteen volumes of writings by and about early modern Englishwomen. The set comprises the following titles: Volume 1: Anne Cooke Bacon Volume 2: Brief Confessional Writings: Grey, Stubbes, Livingstone, Clarksone Volume 3: Eleanor Davies Volume 4: Early Tudor Translators: Margaret Beaufort, Margaret More Roper and Mary Basset Volume 5: Elizabeth and Mary Tudor Volume 6: Anne, Margaret and Jane Seymour Volume 7: Neo-Latin Women Writers: Elizabeth Jane Weston and Bathsua Reginald (Makin) Volume 8: Mother's Advice Books Volume 9: Jane Owen Volume 10: The Poets, I: Whitney, Dowriche, Melville (Colville), Lanyer, Speght and Primrose Volume 11: The Poets II: Mary Fage Volume 12: Protestant Translators: Anne Lock Prowse and Elizabeth Russell Volume 13: Recusant Translators: Elizabeth Cary and Alexia Gre...read more

Product Description: The works by the four protestant women authors collected in this volume participate in the ars moriandi (art of dying) tradition which became increasingly powerful over the 16th and 17th centuries. The moment of death was thought to reveal the ’true’ state of the individual’s soul...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Early modern works of advice can be typified by a number of texts by Erasmus falling into a variety of categories: advice on family conduct; manners; study plans and piety. A close relation to these works of advice was the parental advice book, usually written by a father to his son...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Early modern men and women represented their lives very differently from twentieth-century autobiographers, sharing none of the current preoccupation with individuality and the unique self. The writers represented in this two-volume collection sought connections between particular events in their lives and the larger pattern of Christian salvation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Early modern men and women represented their lives very differently from twentieth-century autobiographers, sharing none of the current preoccupation with individuality and the unique self. The writers represented in this two-volume collection sought connections between particular events in their lives and the larger pattern of Christian salvation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As writers strongly committed to the Reformation, Anne Lock Prowse and Elizabeth Russell translated works which they believed were doctrinally useful for their Protestant readers. Lock translated Calvin’s four sermons from French, dedicating the work to Katharine, Duchess of Suffolk...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)