Historical Study of Women
England 1500--1700


By Amanda Capern
December 2010
Palgrave / Macmillan
Distributed by Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9780333662694
444 pages
$67.50 Paper original

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The Historical Study of Women: England 1500-1700 provides a richly detailed survey of the history and historiography of early-modern women in England during the Reformation and Civil War. Covering a wide variety of key topics, the book explores the history of ideas, women's rights, law and criminality, witch-craft, queenship, courtship and marriage, family and the household, childrearing and the world of property-ownership and work. It also provides valuable insights into the development of women's writing and political participation in the period.

Capern treats women's history as inherently political and offers a new interpretative framework for understanding the history of femininity in early-modern England. Clear and comprehensive, this is significant reading for anyone interested in early-modern English history.

 

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