A study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to formal humanist education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians.
A study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to formal humanist education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians.
Gemma Allen is Lecturer in Early Modern History at The Open University and a Retained Lecturer at Pembroke College, Oxford
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Introduction 1. 'Nouzeled and trained in the studie of letters': reading and learning 2. 'Quod licuit feci': the power of the word 3. 'Haud inane est quod dico': female counsellors 4. 'Cecil's wife tells me': political networks 5. 'Building up of the bodie of the fellowship of Saincts': religious networks 6. 'Of more learning than is necessary for that sex': responses to learned women Conclusion Index
Introduction 1. 'Nouzeled and trained in the studie of letters': reading and learning 2. 'Quod licuit feci': the power of the word 3. 'Haud inane est quod dico': female counsellors 4. 'Cecil's wife tells me': political networks 5. 'Building up of the bodie of the fellowship of Saincts': religious networks 6. 'Of more learning than is necessary for that sex': responses to learned women Conclusion Index
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