Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women

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• Culture and Change *
• Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies *
• Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women *
• Contents *
• Director 's Preface 9
• Introduction 11
• Part One - Stories *
• “and Then She Fell on a Great Laughter”: Tudor Diplomats Read Marguerite De Navarre 41
• Of Bears, Satyrs, and Diana's Kisses: Metamorphoses in Early Modern Opera 66
• Just Stories: Telling Tales of Infant Death in Early Modern England 98
• Workshop Summaries 1—10 116
• Part Two - Keynote Address *
• Losing Babies, Losing Stories: Attending to Women's Confessions in Scottish Witch-Trials 143
• Part Three - Goods *
• The Evidence of Fiction: Women's Relationship to Goods in London City Drama 161
• The Bride and Her Donora in Renaissance Florence 177

• Culture and Change *
• Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies *
• Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women *
• Contents *
• Director 's Preface 9
• Introduction 11
• Part One - Stories *
• “and Then She Fell on a Great Laughter”: Tudor Diplomats Read Marguerite De Navarre 41
• Of Bears, Satyrs, and Diana's Kisses: Metamorphoses in Early Modern Opera 66
• Just Stories: Telling Tales of Infant Death in Early Modern England 98
• Workshop Summaries 1—10 116
• Part Two - Keynote Address *
• Losing Babies, Losing Stories: Attending to Women's Confessions in Scottish Witch-Trials 143
• Part Three - Goods *
• The Evidence of Fiction: Women's Relationship to Goods in London City Drama 161
• The Bride and Her Donora in Renaissance Florence 177
• Workshop Summaries 11—18 203
• Part Four - Faiths *
• Jewish Women's Piety and the Impact of Printing in Early Modern Europe 221
• Discerning Spirits: Women and Spiritual Authority in Counter- Reformation France 241
• “the World Reproov'D”: Writing Faith and History in England 266
• Workshop Summaries 19—26 281
• Part Five - Pedagogies *
• “i'Ve Never Been This Serious”: Necrophilia and the Teacher of Early Modern Literature 303
• Bodies and Stories 317
• The Subject of “woman” and the Discipline of Early Modern Studies: Jemima Wilkinson and the Publick Universal Friend 333
• Workshop Summaries 27—31 361
• Part Six - Applications *
• Elite Fabrications: Staging Seventeenth- Century Drama by Women 375
• The Study of Early Modern Women and the World Wide Web: A University of Maryland Libraries Database Http 378
• Contributors 381
• Index 385