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The Rule of Women in Early Modern Europe Paperback – Illustrated, June 22, 2009

by Anne J Cruz (Editor), Mihoko Suzuki (Editor, Contributor), Tracy Adams (Contributor),
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This collection brings a transcultural and transnational perspective to the study of early modern women rulers and female sovereignty, a topic that has until now been examined through the lens of a single nation. Contributors to the volume juxtapose rulers from different countries, including well-known sovereigns such as Isabel of Castile and Elizabeth Tudor, as well as other less widely studied figures Isabeau of Bavaria, Jeanne d'Albret, Isabel Clara Eugenia, Juana of Austria, and Catherine of Brandenburg. Several essays also focus on the representations of foreign rulers such as Catherine de' Medici in England and Elizabeth I in France.

Drawing on early modern literature and historical documents, this study investigates the various political, discursive, and symbolic measures employed to negotiate and support female sovereignty by both early modern writers and the rulers themselves. The detailed analysis of the women's responses--or inability to respond--to these strictures underscores the relationship between early modern authors and sovereigns and the complex and vexed situation of European women rulers.

Contributors are Tracy Adams, Anne J. Cruz, Éva Deák, Mary C. Ekman, Catherine L. Howey, Elizabeth Ketner, Carole Levin, Sandra Logan, Magdalena S. Sánchez, Mihoko Suzuki, and Barbara F. Weissberger.

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    June 22, 2009
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    0252076168
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"A rich and rewarding collection of essays."--Renaissance Quarterly


"Complex and intriguing portraits of female sovereigns. . . . a de-idealized, yet non-misogynistic picture of female sovereignty in the early modern era."--Feminist Formations


"This valuable collection of theoretically engaged and empirically grounded essays greatly broadens scholarly understanding of late medieval and early modern women and rulership in Europe, shifting the focus from the masculinist political-religious discussion to a feminine perspective."--Theresa Earenfight, editor of Queenship and Political Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

About the Author

Anne J. Cruz is professor of Spanish and Cooper Fellow at the University of Miami. Her publications range from studies on Spanish Petrarchism, Cervantes, and the comedia to women’s writings and the picaresque novel. She is a member of the Bibliografía de Escritoras Españolas (Bieses) Research Team, coeditor of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and editor of the Ashgate series New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies. She has recently been named corresponding member of Spain’s Royal Academy of History.
 

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Illinois Press; First Edition (June 22, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0252076168
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0252076169
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
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Judith Loriente
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Sketches
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2010
This book contains what mostly proved interesting sketches of women rulers from the 15th to the 17th Centuries: Isabeau of Bavaria, Jeanne of Navarre, Isabel of Castile, Isabel Clara Eugenia (daughter of Philip II and regent of the Netherlands), Catherine of Brandenburg, Juana of Austria (sister of Philip II and regent of Spain) and Katherine de Valois, plus four essays that deal closely or loosely with Elizabeth I. They were all accessible except for `Warning Elizabeth with Catherine de' Medici's Example: Anne Dowriche's French Historie and the Politics of Counsel', which I found a bit dry and technical.

I found it particularly interesting to read about some of the lesser known women, particularly Isabel Clara Eugenia, who was such a prominent figure of the early 17th Century but who doesn't seem to have attracted a single biographer. Juana of Austria is another of those figures who were important in their own time, yet have slipped off the historians' radar. The essay on Isabeau of Bavaria was also an eye-opener; if it is indeed correct, she doesn't fully deserve her reputation as a nation-destroying she-wolf.

All up, the book reminded me of Roland Bainton's  Women of the Reformation: In France and England , Women of the Reformation: In Germany and Italy  and  Women of the Reformation: From Spain to Scandinavia  - high praise indeed, given how much I enjoyed those three books.
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