Search Results - "Mothers"

From mother and daughter poems, dialogues, and letters of les dames Des Roches / by Des Roches, Madeleine Neveu, dame, ca. 1520-1587

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Marguerite de Navarre mother of the Renaissance / by Cholakian, Patricia Francis

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Women and the Reformation by Stjerna, Kirsi Irmeli, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…: a Bavarian apologist and pamphleteer -- Elisabeth von Brandenburg, 1485-1555, and Elisabeth von Braunschweig, 1510-1558: exiled mothers, reforming rulers -- Katharina Schütz Zell, 1498-1562: a publishing church mother in Strasbourg -- Marie Dentière, 1495-1561: a Genevan reformer and writer -- Marguerite de Navarre, 1492-1549, and Jeanne d'Albret, 1528-1572: the protectors of the French reformers -- Renée de France, 1510-1575: a friend of the Huguenots -- Olimpia Fulvia Morata, 1526/27-1555: an Italian scholar -- Conclusions and observations on gender and the Reformation…”
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Widowhood in early modern Spain protectors, proprietors, and patrons / by Fink De Backer, Stephanie

Table of Contents: “…Widows and the literary imagination -- Subjects of counsel -- Objects of desire -- Sex in the city -- To her alone pertains the governance of all her house (Gaspar Astete) -- Master and mistress of the household -- Father and mother of their children -- A widow's work is never done -- Worthy recipients and pious donors -- Widowhood, poverty, and charity -- Family, memory, and the sacralization of urban space -- Coda. …”
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Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora

Table of Contents: “…Communal pride and feminine virtue: suspecting "sivlonot" in the Jewish communities of the Ottoman empire in the early sixteenth century / Hannah Davidson -- Mothers and children as seen by sixteenth-century rabbis in the Ottoman empire / Ruth Lamdan -- Religious space, gender, and power in the Sephardi diaspora: the return to Judaism of new Christian men and women in Livorno and Pisa / Cristina Galasso -- Childhood and family among the western Sephardim in the seventeenth century / Julia R. …”
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The transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760

Table of Contents: “…Worth -- Trouble coming southward : emanations through and from Virginia, 1607-1675 / Helen C. Rountree -- The mother of necessity : Carolina, the Creek Indians, and the making of a new order in the American Southeast, 1670-1763 / Steven C. …”
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Tudor : passion, manipulation, murder : the story of England's most notorious royal family / by De Lisle, Leanda

Table of Contents: “…The coming of the Tudors : a mother's love. An ordinary man ; A child bride ; A prisoner, honourably brought up ; The wheel of fortune ; Enter Richard III ; The princes in the tower ; The exile ; Bosworth ; The rose and the passion ; Securing the succession ; The lost prince ; Punishment ; Death and judgement ; Exit Margaret Beaufort -- Inheritance : the legacy of Arthur. …”
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Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563 / by Broomhall, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Louise de Savoie -- The King's Mother, Alter Rex / Mary Beth Winn -- pt. II Centers and Peripheries of Power -- 4. …”
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Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563 / by Broomhall, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Louise de Savoie -- The King's Mother, Alter Rex / Mary Beth Winn -- pt. II Centers and Peripheries of Power -- 4. …”
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