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 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 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

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