Susan Broomhall, Jennifer Spinks

Early Modern Women in the Low Countries

Feminizing Sources and Interpretations of the Past

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Combining historical, historiographical, museological, and touristic analysis, this title investigates how late medieval and early modern women of the Low Countries expressed themselves through texts, art, architecture and material objects, how they were represented by contemporaries, and how they have been interpreted in academica.

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Employing an innovative range of materials from written sources to artworks, material objects, heritage sites and urban precincts, and combining historical, historiographical, museological, and touristic analysis, this study investigates how late medieval and early modern women of the Low Countries expressed themselves, how they were represented by contemporaries, and how they have been interpreted in modern academic and popular contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780754667421
• ISBN-10: 0754667421
• Artikelnr.: 41244246

Autorenporträt

Susan Broomhall is Professor of Early Modern History at The University of Western Australia. Jennifer Spinks is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Manchester, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Chapter 1 Writing Elite Women into the Burgundian and
Habsburg Netherlands; Chapter 2 Visualizing Women's Work in the Textile
Trades at the Dawn of the Golden Age; Chapter 3 Memorializing Grief in
Familial and National Narratives of Dutch Identity; Chapter 4 Imagining
Domesticity in Early Modern Dutch Dolls' Houses; Chapter 5 The Rembrandt
House and the Rubens House: Encountering Early Modern Women through
Heritage Sites; Chapter 6 Sources and Settings: The Uses of Place for
Tourism, Heritage, and History; Chapter 7 Purchasing the Past: Gender and
the Consumption of Heritage; conclusion Conclusion From Yesterday to
Tomorrow: Seeing and Hearing Women in the Low Countries;