Title European Women's Letter-writing from the 11th to the 20th Centuries / Clare Monagle, Carolyn James, David Garrioch, Barbara Caine

Published Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press

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Description 1 online resource (296 pages) Contents Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- 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: Women's Letters come to an End -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index Summary 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 Analysis 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 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 Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Letter writing -- Europe -- History Women -- Europe -- Social conditions -- History 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. Europe Genre/Form Electronic books History Anthologies. Form Electronic book Author James, Carolyn author Garrioch, David author Caine, Barbara author ISBN 9048556422 9789048556427

Other Titles European Women's Letter-writing from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Centuries

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