In 16th and 17th century England conversation was an embodied act that held the capacity to negotiate, manipulate and transform social relationships. Early Mode

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This book explores how women of the poorer and middling sorts in early modern England negotiated a patriarchal culture in which they were generally excluded, ma

Through fifteen essays that work from a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a y

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