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Pawns or players?

Studies on medieval and early modern women

Christine Meek & Catherine Lawless editors

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ISBN: 978-1-85182-775-6
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ISBN: 978-1-85182-774-9
December 2004. 256pp.

A source for the depiction of Eve in the early-modern period: Biblical Latin epics of the fifth and sixth centuries

The marriage portion, inheritance and family politics

Women and the conquest of Ireland, 1170–1240

The importance of dower in the lives of medieval women in Ireland

Women travellers in the middle ages

The gender of lordly women: the case of Adela of Blois

The 'beloved' and the 'mistress' in Renaissance Florence

Women and violence in late medieval Ireland

Irish women and the Catholic Reformation

The role of sisterhood in sustaining resistance by the Port-Royal community

The iconography of the feminized monster