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  1. European Women's Letter-writing from the 11th to the 20th Centuries
    Author: Monagle, Clare; James, Carolyn; Garrioch, David; Caine, Barbara
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam ; JSTOR, New York, NY

    This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It explores the changing ways that women used correspondence for self-expression and political mobilization... more

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    This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It explores the changing ways that women used correspondence for self-expression and political mobilization over this period, enabling them to navigate the myriad gendered restrictions that limited women's engagement in the world. Whether written from the medieval cloister, or the renaissance court, or the artisan's workshop, or the drawing room, letters crossed geographical and social distance and were mobile in ways that women themselves could not always be. Women wrote to govern, to argue, to plead, and to demand. They also wrote to express love and intimacy, and in so doing, to explain and to understand themselves. This book argues that the personal letter was a crucial place for European women's self-fashioning, and that exploring the history of their letters offers a profound insight into their subjectivity and agency over time...

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9048556422; 9789048556427
    Subjects: Frau; Brief; Letter writing; Women; Early history: c. 500 to c. 1450/1500; Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700; Gender studies: women; HISTORY / Medieval; HISTORY / Renaissance; HISTORY / Modern / General; Letter writing; Women - Social conditions; Gender studies: women and girls; Sociology: family and relationships; Social and cultural history; History
    Other subjects: History, Art History, and Archaeology; HIS; Diachronic; Gender and Sexuality Studies; GEND & SEXU; Media Studies; MEDIA; Sociology and Social History; SOC & HIS; Epistolarity, Gender, Family, Women
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
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    "Amsterdam University Press"

    Introduction 1 Authority and the Self: the Letters of Medieval Women 2 The Rise of Vernacular Letter-writing 3 The Triumph of the Familiar Letter 4 Intimate Letters Epilogue Acknowledgements Bibliography Endnotes
  2. European Women's Letter-writing from the 11th to the 20th Centuries
    Author: Monagle, Clare; James, Carolyn; Garrioch, David; Caine, Barbara
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

    This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It explores the changing ways that women used correspondence for self-expression and political mobilization... more

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    This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It explores the changing ways that women used correspondence for self-expression and political mobilization over this period, enabling them to navigate the myriad gendered restrictions that limited women's engagement in the world. Whether written from the medieval cloister, or the renaissance court, or the artisan's workshop, or the drawing room, letters crossed geographical and social distance and were mobile in ways that women themselves could not always be. Women wrote to govern, to argue, to plead, and to demand. They also wrote to express love and intimacy, and in so doing, to explain and to understand themselves. This book argues that the personal letter was a crucial place for European women's self-fashioning, and that exploring the history of their letters offers a profound insight into their subjectivity and agency over time

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9048556422; 9789048556427
    Subjects: Letter writing; Women; Early history: c. 500 to c. 1450/1500; Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700; Gender studies: women; HISTORY / Medieval; HISTORY / Renaissance; HISTORY / Modern / General; Letter writing; Women - Social conditions; Gender studies: women and girls; Sociology: family and relationships; Social and cultural history; History
    Other subjects: History, Art History, and Archaeology; HIS; Diachronic; Gender and Sexuality Studies; GEND & SEXU; Media Studies; MEDIA; Sociology and Social History; SOC & HIS; Epistolarity, Gender, Family, Women
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
    Notes:

    "Amsterdam University Press"

    Introduction 1 Authority and the Self: the Letters of Medieval Women 2 The Rise of Vernacular Letter-writing 3 The Triumph of the Familiar Letter 4 Intimate Letters Epilogue Acknowledgements Bibliography Endnotes