Gender, Family, and Politics

The Howard Women, 1485-1558

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Av Nicola Clark, University of London) Clark, Nicola (Associate Lecturer; Visiting Tutor and Lecturer, Associate Lecturer; Visiting Tutor and Lecturer, University of Chichester; Royal Holloway, CLARK, Clark

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Gender, Family, and Politics is the first full-length, gender-inclusive study of the Howard family, one of the pre-eminent families of early-modern Britain. Most of the existing scholarship on this aristocratic dynasty's political operation during the first half of the sixteenth-century centres on the male family members, and studies of the women of the early-modern period tends to focus on class or geographical location. Nicola Clark, however, places women and the question of kinship in centre-stage, arguing that this is necessary to understand the complexity of the early modern dynasty. A nuanced understanding of women's agency, dynastic identity, and politics allows us to more fully understand the political, social, religious, and cultural history of early-modern Britain.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-08-21
Mått167 x 242 x 19 mm
Vikt500 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor222
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198784814

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Introduction: 'anobull house'1: 'Many kyne and few that dothe for me': Kinship Relations2: 'Trashe baguaige and many od endes': Material Culture and Patronage3: 'To wise for a woman': Marital Strife and Dynastic Identity4: 'Yll name or fame': Courtiers5: 'The syknes of mistrust': Treason6: 'The healthe of my soule': Religion7: 'Sore perplexed': Twilight YearsConclusion: 'A man can not haue his cake and eate his cake'

Always, these were Howard women regardless of life course, yet Clark shows that their actions were never solely defined by this element of their identity. Clark engages sensitively and expertly with her selected sources throughout, especially in relation to letters and burial sites...[this study] not only shows how contemporaries saw these women, but how they saw themselves and each other and, as it does so, makes an original contribution to existing work on the Tudor Howard family, Tudor rule, and studies of early modern dynasty.