Portraits of aristocratic women from the Yorkist and Tudor periods reveal elaborately clothed and bejeweled nobility, exemplars of their families' wealth. Unlik

This study uncovers the active role played by women in the evolution of religious art and architecture. Their preferred art, Barbara J. Harris shows, reveals th

This work, based on archival research, combines a collective portrait of aristocratic women with an analysis of the particular, class-specific form of patriarch

This collection of essays examines women's involvement in politics in early modern England, as writers, as members of kinship and patronage networks, and as pet

Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe investigates the gendered nature of political culture across early modern Europe by exploring the relationsh