Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women

This is the fourth in the series of proceedings of the interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Center for Renaissance \u26 Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland. This volume reflects the commitment of scholars to the exploration of early modern women\u27s culture as recovered through images, literature, music, and archives of the period. In essays on \u27Stories,\u27 \u27Goods,\u27 \u27Faiths,\u27 and \u27Pedagogues,\u27 scholars from a wide variety of fields discuss the contributions that reveal early modern women\u27s influence on the societal and cultural transformations in which they participated. Nearly thirty workshops from the conference are summarized, and these offer a detailed overview of current research in early modern women\u27s studies. An introduction by Margaret Mikesell traces the development of the Attending to Early Modern Women symposia (1990-2000). A keynote address by Diane Purkiss on stories of maternal grief located in Scottish witch-trial confessions is also included.http://digitalcommons.framingham.edu/books/1032/thumbnail.jp