Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women: Pawns Or Players?Christine Meek, Catherine Lawless 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. |
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... nuns in complaints about discipline and individual nuns were admonished for using discipline that was too severe . The main criteria for judging severity seems to have been trivial motivation along with physical signs of violence , such ...
... nuns in complaints about discipline and individual nuns were admonished for using discipline that was too severe . The main criteria for judging severity seems to have been trivial motivation along with physical signs of violence , such ...
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... nuns ' resistance occurred a generation later when in 1709 , as stated above , the monastery was declared extinct and the nuns were removed to other communities . The evolution of the Port - Royal history of resistance which resulted in ...
... nuns ' resistance occurred a generation later when in 1709 , as stated above , the monastery was declared extinct and the nuns were removed to other communities . The evolution of the Port - Royal history of resistance which resulted in ...
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... nuns would cease , as he considered it , to be duped by the manipulation of their female superiors36 and would submit to his orders . He was amazed when only 7 of the 75 nuns agreed to sign by September 1664.37 His surprise was shared ...
... nuns would cease , as he considered it , to be duped by the manipulation of their female superiors36 and would submit to his orders . He was amazed when only 7 of the 75 nuns agreed to sign by September 1664.37 His surprise was shared ...
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 67 | 6 |
Share and share alike? The marriage portion inheritance | 36 |
women and the conquest | 49 |
Copyright | |
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