Gemma Allen

The Cooke sisters

Education, piety and politics in early modern England

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780719099779
• ISBN-10: 0719099773
• Artikelnr.: 42801811

Autorenporträt

Gemma Allen is Lecturer in Early Modern History at The Open University and a Retained Lecturer at Pembroke College, Oxford

Inhaltsangabe

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