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A new edition of all of de Varano's known works, several of which have never before appeared in English. Camilla Battista da Varano (14581524) was a Franciscan nun and the author of profound spiritual writings in both prose and verse. Raised ...

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Born to merchant-class parents who served in the court of Henry VIII and his queens, Anne Vaughan Lock lived in London and Exeter, spent time in Geneva as a religious exile, belonged to the Cooke sisters political-religious circle, maintained frie...

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In her Letters on Natural Philosophy, published originally in Krakow in 1584, Camilla Erculiani proposed her new theory of the natural causes of the universal flood in the biblical book of Genesis. Erculiani weaves together her understanding of Ar...

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In her never-finished My Lifes Travels and Adventures, the eighteenth-century Polish doctor Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa plays a myriad of roles, including child bride, wife, mother, lover, adventuress, slave trader, writer, and home-taught physicia...

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Christine de Pizan was born in Italy and moved to the French court of Charles V when she was four years old. She led a life of learning, stimulated by her reading and by her drive to engage with the cultural and political issues of her day. As a y...

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In the humanities, the field of social knowledge creation has helped define how social media platforms and other collaborative spaces have shaped humanistic critique in the twenty-first century. The ability to access and organize information and p...

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Marie Gigault de Bellefonds, Marquise de Villars was a well-regarded figure in Parisian salons and esteemed by King Louis XIV, and she traveled internationally to accompany her ambassador husband, playing significant diplomatic roles at the court ...

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Anna Maria van Schurman was widely regarded as the most erudite woman in seventeenth-century Europe. As the Star of Utrecht, she was active in a network of learning that included the most renowned scholars of her time. Known for her extensive lear...

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Vittoria Colonnas 1538 Rime, originally issued without her permission by a small Parma press, was the first of many editions of her poetry published during her lifetime. Born into one of the most powerful families in Rome and connected to many of ...

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These essays explore problems with digital approaches to analog objects and offer digital methods to study networks of production, dissemination, and collection. Further, they reflect on the limitations of those methods and speak to a central trut...

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This volume is the first to bring together the entire extant correspondence of one of the most significant women in early modern Ireland, Elizabeth Butler, first Duchess of Ormonde. She was the wife of James Butler, twelfth Earl and first Duke of ...

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This volume presents the first printed edition of a late sixteenth-century poetic miscellany and provides invaluable insight into understanding the literature of the period. Its owner and principal scribe, Humfrey Coningsby, drew on texts circulat...

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A collection of texts by a pioneering seventeenth-century French woman author. Comprising texts by Madeleine de Scudry, including many from her novel Cllie, this volume focuses on the story of Lucretia, the Roman matron whose rape and suicide led ...

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The autobiographical narrative of Anne, Lady Halkett. Born in the early 1620s, Anne, Lady Halkett (ne Murray) grew up on the fringes of the English court during a period of increasing political tension. From 1644 to 1699, Halkett recorded her pers...

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A seventeenth-century play showing the reality of life for women. Valeria Mianis Amorous Hope is a play of remarkable richness, subtlety, and verve. It presents a scathing exposure of societys double-standards and it champions womens dramatic agen...

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Forty revealing personal letters written by a key figure from the Italian Renaissance. The most celebrated woman writer of the Italian Renaissance, Vittoria Colonna was known for her elegant poetry and use of the sonnet form to explore pressing re...

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The first treatise of its kind to be written in a European vernacular. Around 1460, Michele Savonarola produced the extraordinary Mothers Manual for the Women of Ferrara, a gynecological, obstetrical, and pediatric treatise composed in the vernacu...

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A page-turner featuring one of literatures earliest female protagonists. Written in 1685, Transaction or the Description of the Entire Life of an Orphan by Way of Plaintful Threnodies, often referred to as Orphan Girl, is a valuable, long-lost, se...

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The voluminous correspondence of Maria Salviati de Medici. In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in Maria Salviati de Medici, specifically, in her role in Medici governance and her relationships with other members of the Medici co...

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Witty and dynamic lovers dialogues for the stage. The actress and author Isabella Andreini won international renown playing the bold, versatile, and intellectual inamorata of the commedia dellarte. After her death, her husband Francesco Andreini c...

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The first political treatise written by a woman. Christine de Pizans The Book of the Body Politic is the first political treatise written by a woman. It not only advises the prince, but nobles, knights, and common people as well. It promotes the i...

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An engaging account of womens travels in the early modern period. This book showcases three Frenchwomen who ventured far from home at a time when such traveling was rare. In 1639, Marie de lIncarnation embarked for New France where she founded the...

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A masterpiece of ethnographic observation on seventeenth-century Spain. While mysteries remain in her biography, Madame dAulnoys tremendous literary talent is finally being rediscovered. Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, baronne dAulnoy (165...

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A collection of essays on early modern digital humanities by leading scholars in the field. This collection of essays focuses on teaching at the intersection of early modern literature, book history, and digital media. It considers how teaching di...

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A collection of essays considering developing models and new research possibilities in early modern digital studies. Early modern digital studies is a thriving field that draws in strands from publishing, textual studies, digital humanities, and m...

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Two accounts of the life of Saint Colette of Corbie. Saint Colette of Corbie (13811447) was a French reformer of the Franciscan Order and the founder of seventeen convents. Though of humble origin, she attracted the support of powerful patrons and...

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An introduction to a new early modern woman writer that makes her manuscripts available in print for the first time. This first print edition of two extant manuscripts by Dorothy Calthorpe (16481693) introduces a new seventeenth-century woman writ...

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Published for the first time in full, a common womans writings reveal the startling role she played in Englands revolt against the monarchy. In 1649, a seamstress named Elizabeth Poole appeared at the Whitehall debates in London to prophesy in fro...

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Multiple conflicting perspectives come together in this collection to provide a Rashomon-style account of marriage, fraud, and trickery in seventeenth-century England. Mary Carleton was an ordinary woman from Canterbury who entered historical reco...

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The extraordinary story of a seventeenth-century French midwife and her treatise on childbirth. In 1671, Marie Baudoin (16251700), head midwife and governor of the Htel-Dieu of Clermont-Ferrand, sent a treatise on the art of childbirth to her powe...

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