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Christine Meek and Catherine Lawless, eds.
Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women: Pawns or Players?
Published Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003.
Series: Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women series, no. 3.
ISBN 1851827757;
ISBN-13: 9781851827756.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printed in the UK by MPG Books, Bodmin.
Size: 154x233x18mm.
Page count: 224pp.
Main language: English.
Unused bargain: this last copy has some noticeable shop wear, covers a bit scuffed, a bit of wear on the edges and corners, pages starting to yellow with age.

This item £7.00
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[Publisher’s price €29.95]
Weight without packaging: 365g.

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The passive and active of 'pawns or players' is in many ways the kernel of the ongoing debate within the analysis of the role of women in the past. The essays, by both established and younger scholars and covering a wide time-span and geographical area, range from examinations of the laws which restrained or enabled women to discussions of women who resisted the authorities, from studies of women who stepped outside their prescribed role and behaved in a manner that might be described as 'manly' to analyses of the constructions of gender and womanhood that influenced such prescriptions.

Contents:
Flood, A source for the depiction of Eve in the early-modern period — biblical Latin epic of the 5th & 6th cc.;
De Trafford, The marriage portion, inheritance & family politics;
Smith, Women & the conquest of Ireland, 1170-1240;
Kenny, The power of dower — importance of dower in the lives of medieval women in Ireland;
Webb, Freedom of movement? Women travellers in the Middle Ages;
LoPrete, Gender of lordly women — Adela of Blois;
Lawless, Women on the margins — the 'beloved' & the 'mistress' in Renaissance Florence;
Hall, Women & violence in late medieval Ireland;
Ó hAnnracháinn, Theory in the absence of fact — Irish women & the Catholic Reformation;
Baxter, Role of sisterhood in sustaining resistance by the Port-Royal community;
Riches, Iconography of the feminised monster.

Illustrations: 7, monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Introduction: pp
Notes: at foot of page
Tables:
Genealogies: no
Chronology:
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 17pp
Index: yes

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See also | Womens' studies | Ireland |
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