Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe

Jessica Munns is Professor of Literature at the University of Denver. Her previous books include Restoration Politics and Drama: The Plays of Thomas Otway, 1675-1683 (1995), with Gita Rajan she has co-edited A Cultural Studies Reader: History, Theory, Practice (1996). Penny Richards is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Gloucestershire. She has published widely on early modern history and has co-edited with Jessica Munns, The Clothes that Wear Us: Dressing and Transgressing, Essays in Eighteenth-Century Culture (1999).

• CONTENTSList o f Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsList o f ContributorsIntroductionJessica Munns and Penny Richards 1 Gender and sexuality in early modem England 2 Gender and early emancipation in the Low Countries 3 'So was theys castell layd wyde open': Battle for the phallus in early modern responses to Chaucer's Pardoner 4 The importnace of a name: Gender, power and the strategy of naming a child in a noble Italian family 5 'Our Trinity!': Francis I, Louise of Savoy and Marguerite d' Angouleme 6 Elizabeth I as Deborah: Biblical typology, prophecy and political power 7 Queen Anna bites back: Protest, effemiinacy and manliness at the Jacobean court Privileges of the soul, pains of the body: Teresa de Jesus, the mystic beatas and the Spanish Inquisition after Trent 9 Allarme to England!; Gender and militarism in early modern England 10 The Guise women: Politics, war and peace Notes Select Bibliography Index

'This is a very clear introduction to the concept of gender, which could be usefully recommended to all undergraduates studying early modern England.'Cordelia Beattie, European History Quarterly