Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas
Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas presents the important yet largely untold stories of a diverse group of women exiled across the Atlantic world in the early modern period. The book provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile and also contributes importa...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Manchester : Manchester University Press,
2024
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Women on the move
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| Schlagworte: | Exiles |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (263 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas presents the important yet largely untold stories of a diverse group of women exiled across the Atlantic world in the early modern period. The book provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile and also contributes important new scholarship to the history of women. Part I: Religion and exile -- Chapter 1: Iberian women in exile from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries -- Chapter 2: Hitting bottom before reaching the top: the two exiles of Anne Marguerite Petit Dunoyer, 1686 and 1702 -- Chapter 3: Friends without friends: exile and excommunication from early Quakerism, c.1660-1800 -- Part II: Enslavement, freedom, and exile -- Chapter 4: Notes to a former self: slavery's time in sixteenth-century Indigenous women's freedom suits -- Chapter 5: 'Be sure thou stay at home': indentured women in the British Atlantic during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- Chapter 6: 'A Mulatto woman named Margaret': fugitivity and forced exile in the age of American revolution, 1770-1783 -- Part III: Politics and political culture -- Chapter 7: Sixteenth-century cast-off consorts: the internal exiles of Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves -- Chapter 8: Refuge of ill-repute: the characterization of Marguerite de Valois' exile at Usson, 1586-1605 -- Chapter 9: Queen without a country: Elizabeth of Bohemia 1596-1662, exile and the Esther story -- Chapter 10: Choosing exile: Aletheia, Countess of Arundel and Elizabeth Ludlow, 1641-1703 -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (263 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781526175342 1526175347 9781526175359 1526175355 |