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Early Modern Women’s Diaries
This entry first considers the question of what may be defined as a diary in the early modern period, along with issues of the preservation,...
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Lay Theologians as Experts in the Early Modern Period
In the Early Modern period, many professions, including theology, did not yet have systems to validate expertise. Some laypeople were able to acquire...
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Early Modern Women Writers in India
Most scholars and studies on late medieval and early modern writing from India have focused on Bhakti, the devotional movement that spread across the...
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Early Modern French Women Writers
The different religiocultural events that marked the years 1526–1680 clearly affected the course of female education in France. However, their impact...
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Early Modern Welsh Women Writers
In spite of the gradual anglicization of both high and low culture in Tudor Wales and the proliferation of Welsh-language religious prose in print...
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Early Modern Posthumanism
Early modern humanism is less monolithic and even less humanist than posthumanist theory has often assumed. This chapter embarks on a swee**...
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Editing Early Modern Women’s Printed Work
While male writers from the English Renaissance such as Shakespeare have benefited from centuries of active editing, a vast majority of women writers...
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Methodologies: Working with Early Modern Women’s Manuscripts
The methodologies students and scholars can use when working with early modern women’s manuscripts are multiple. Insights can be gained from applying...
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Early Modern Posthumanism
Early modern humanism is less monolithic and even less humanist than posthumanist theory has often assumed. This chapter embarks on a swee**...
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Fantasies of Prolongevity in Early Modern Culture
Of all notions regarding senescence to survive from early modernity, none is more iconic than the “fountain of youth.” The legacy of medieval French...
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Early Modern Nordic Women Writers
In the early modern period, only a few Nordic women had books printed and published, and only a few adorned themselves with the name of author or...
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Early Modern Women and French Secular Networks
Early modern French women’s patronage, alliances, and political and epistolary exchanges have been, and continue to be, an important focus of...
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Early Modern Women, Science, and Natural Philosophy
This entry examines two similar but non-identical areas: early modern women (writers) and science, and early modern women (writers) and natural...
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Apes, Indigeneity and the Early Modern Travel Narrative
This chapter starts with a discussion of early modern travel narratives in the context of what Kim F. Hall calls their ‘obsessive linking of apes and...
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Reviving the Work of Early Modern Women Theatermakers
Focusing on revivals of four plays written by early modern women theatermakers—Aphra Behn’s The Lucky Chance, Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam,...
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Early Modern Polish Women Writers
In the period between 1526 and 1686, five major figures of Polish women authors stand out: these are Anna Vasa, Anna Memorata, Magdalena Mortęska,...
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Early Modern Women Writers in Ireland
Early modern Ireland was a multilingual, fractious place, peopled by Irish Gaelic-speaking natives, bilingual Norman descendants, and anglophone...
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Early Modern Japanese Women Writers
Writing by women in Japan reached an early peak in the eleventh century with the composition of lyric poetry, memoirs such as The Pillow Book, and...
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London Early Modern Playhouses
This chapter offers a brief history of early modern London’s first permanent playhouses. The focus is on the interplay between urban policy and...
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Early Modern Women and Travel
This entry focuses on the history of early modern women’s travel as it intersects with travel literature. Examining the global networks in which...