Non-Elite Women's Networks Across the Early Modern World (Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World)

Cohen, Elizabeth Storr (EDT)/ Couling, Marlee J. (EDT)

Routledge（2025/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 258 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781041183617

Full Description

Non-elite or marginalized early modern women—among them the poor, migrants, members of religious or ethnic minorities, abused or abandoned wives, servants, and sex workers—have seldom left records of their experiences. Drawing on a variety of sources, including trial records, administrative paperwork, letters, pamphlets, hagiography, and picaresque literature, this volume explores how, as social agents, these doubly invisible women built and used networks and informal alliances to supplement the usual structures of family and community that often let them down. Ten essays, ranging widely in geography from the eastern Mediterranean to colonial Spanish America and in time from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, show how flexible, sometimes ad hoc relationships could provide crucial practical and emotional support for women who faced problems of livelihood, reputation, displacement, and violence.

Contents

Introduction, 1. 'Going Beyond Montagu: The Network of Subaltern Women on the Turkish Embassy, 1716-18', 2. 'Gendered Naming Practices among Coptic Christians in Sixteenth-Century Cairo: A Preliminary Assessment', 3. 'The Queen of Algiers: An Enterprising Renegade in the Rome of Sixtus V', 4. 'An Exotic Migrant, Despina Basaraba Networks a New Life in Papal Rome circa 1600', Part II: Local Networks in Europe, Part III: Body and Spirit in Colonial Spanish America, Index