The Militant Countesses of Rudolstadt: When an unruly army stops by on its way through, it’s time to call on a woman for help.

In: Gender Matters
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Judith P. Aikin
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Gender Matters

Discourses of Violence in Early Modern Literature and the Arts

Series:  Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Online, Volume: 169 and  Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, Volume: 169
Cover Gender Matters
E-Book ISBN:
9789401210232
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2014
Preliminary Material
Gender Matters: Discourses of Violence in Early Modern Literature and the Arts
The Woman Warrior Tomoe in Medieval and Early Modern Japanese Nö Plays
Violence, Victimhood, Artistry: Albrecht Dürer’s The Death of Orpheus
The Eroticization of Judith in Early Modern German Art
For Palle and Patrie: Re-gendering Violence from Benedetto Varchi to Marguerite de Navarre
Framing Men: Violent Women in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron
Tears of the Muses: 1649 and the Lost Political Bodies of Royalist War Elegy
Calm Possessor of his Wife, but Not of her Château: Gendered Religious Violence in the French Wars of Religion
The Law Against Lovers: Dramatizing Civil Union in Restoration England
One Gender in the Legal System? An Examination of Gender in a Trio of Emblems from Pierre Coustau’s Pegme (1560)
Prayer Books and Illicit Female Desires on the Early Modern English Stage
Romancing the News: History and Romance in Eberhard Happel’s Deß Teutschen Carls (1690) and Deß Engelländischen Eduards (1691)
Transforming a Classical Myth in Seventeenth-Century Opera: the Story of Cybele and Atys in the Libretti of Francesco Rasi and Philippe Quinault
Gismond of Salern and the Elizabethan Politics of Senecan Drama
“Drabs of State vext”: Violent Female Masquers in Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women
Death, Femininity, and the Art of Painting in Frans Francken’s The Painter’s Studio
Masculine Virtue in the Kunstkamer: Pictura, Lucre, and Luxury
The Walled-In Woman in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Violence, Gender, and the Construction of the Other in the Story of Inkle and Yarico
Notes on Contributors

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