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Culture And Change: Attending To Early Modern Women, Elaine Beilin
Culture And Change: Attending To Early Modern Women, Elaine Beilin
Elaine V. Beilin
This is the fourth in the series of proceedings of the interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland. This volume reflects the commitment of scholars to the exploration of early modern women's culture as recovered through images, literature, music, and archives of the period. In essays on 'Stories,' 'Goods,' 'Faiths,' and 'Pedagogues,' scholars from a wide variety of fields discuss the contributions that reveal early modern women's influence on the societal and cultural transformations in which they participated. Nearly thirty workshops from the conference are summarized, and these offer a detailed …
Silent But For The Word : Tudor Women As Patrons, Translators, And Writers Of Religious Works, Elaine Beilin
Silent But For The Word : Tudor Women As Patrons, Translators, And Writers Of Religious Works, Elaine Beilin
Elaine V. Beilin
Twelve of the fourteen essays in this volume describe much of the lives and works of an extraordinary group of English women who, despite the regime of chastity, silence and obedience imposed on them, managed to engage in particular with contemporary religious debates, through their work as writers, patrons, and especially translators. The translators discussed include Margaret More Roper, Queen Elizabeth I as a young girl, Mary Sidney, the Cooke sisters, and Lady Cary. Some essays focus on the style of individual translators, revealing "deviations" from source texts where the translator's voice, intentionally or unintentionally, shines through. Mary Ellen Lamb …