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The Youth of Early Modern Women

  • Edited by: Elizabeth Storr Cohen and Margaret Louise Reeves
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2019
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Through fifteen essays that draw on a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a youth.

Author / Editor information

Cohen Elizabeth Storr :

Elizabeth S. Cohen is Professor emerita of History at York University in Toronto. Based on research in the criminal court records of early modern Rome, her articles explore themes of women, work, family, youth, artists, prostitution, crime, street rituals, self-representation, and oralities. With Thomas V. Cohen, she has co-authored Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome Trials Before the Papal Magistrates (University of Toronto Press, 1993) and Daily Life in Renaissance Italy, 2nd edition (ABC-Clio, 2019). With Margaret Reeves, she has co-edited The Youth of Early Modern Women (Amsterdam University Press, 2018).Reeves Margaret Louise :

Margaret Reeves teaches English literature at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. She co-edited Shell Games: Studies in Scams, Frauds, and Deceits (1300-1650), co-authored a history of the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, and has published essays on literary history as well as early modern women's writing.

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"This engaging collection successfully problematizes and confounds simplistic assumptions regarding the early phases of female existence in early modern Western society. (...) The Youth of Early Modern Women provides a wide range of thought-provoking essays that will, one hopes, inspire similarly creative and innovative research in this field."
- Alison Williams Lewin, Renaissance Quarterly, Volume LXXIII, No. 2


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Elizabeth S. Cohen and Margaret Reeves
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Part 1. Concepts and Representations

Concepts of Childhood and Female Youth in Seventeenth- Century British Culture
Margaret Reeves
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The Rover, Part I and Hellena’s Self-Creation of Youth
Sarah Morris
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Talk of Young Women as Daughters, Wives, and Mothers in the Records of the English Consistory Courts, 1550–1650
Jennifer McNabb
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Female Youth, Agency, and Emotions in Sixteenth-Century New Spain
Jacqueline Holler
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Swiss Renaissance Drawings of Young Women circa 1520
Christiane Andersson
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Part 2. Self-Representations: Life-Writing and Letters

The Youths of Teresa de Jesús, María de San José, and Ana de San Bartolomé
Barbara Mujica
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The Examples of Mary Boyle and Alice Wandesford
Julie A. Eckerle
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Megan Moran
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The Early Years of Marriage as a Transition from Girlhood to Womanhood in the Letters of Three Generations of Orange- Nassau Women
Jane Couchman
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Part 3. Training for Adulthood

Forging Female Education in Early Modern Rome
Alessandra Franco
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Michele Nicole Robinson
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Advice Literature for Young Adult Women of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Marja van Tilburg
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Part 4. Courtship and Becoming Sexual

Roman Maids Become Young Women circa 1600
Elizabeth S. Cohen
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Young Women, Courtship, and the Night in Early Modern England
Eleanor Hubbard
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Young Women, their Intimate Partners, and the Challenge of Fertility in Early Modern France
Julie Hardwick
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November 15, 2018
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9789048534982
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