Women, Identities and Communities in Early Modern Europe

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Contents: Preface Introduction, Stephanie Tarbin and Susan Broomhall Part 1 Reading Communities in History: Real and imagined communities in the lives of women in 17th-century Ireland: identity and gender, Anne Laurence The abuse of history? Identity politics, disordered identity and the 'really real' in French cases of demonic possession, Sarah Ferber. Part 2 Domestic Polities: 'In myn own house': the troubled connections between servant marriages, late-medieval English household communities, and early modern historiography, Philippa Maddern Recusants, daughters, and sisters in Christ: English nuns and their communities in the 17th century, Claire Walker. Part 3 Social Networks: 'Charity is worth it when it looks that good': rural women and bequests of clothing in early modern England, Dolly MacKinnon Female magic and women's social relations in 18th-century Sweden, Jacqueline van Gent. Part 4 Negotiating the City: The gorgon of Augsburg, Lyndal Roper Giving birth at the magistrate's gate: single mothers in the early modern city, Laura Gowing. Part 5 Gentry communities: Neighbourhood as female community in the life of Anne Dormer, Sara Mendelson A revolution correspondence: Elizabeth Packer Geddes and Elizabeth Burnet, Frances Harris. Part 6 Queens and Court: Gendering the culture of honour at the 15th-century Burgundian court, Susan Broomhall Public identity and public memory: case studies of 2 Tudor women, Judith M. Richards In praise of queens: the public presentation of the virtuous consort in 17th-centry Britain, Sybil Jack Select bibliography Index.