Gender, Family, and Politics : The Howard Women, 1485-1558
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| Title: | Gender, Family, and Politics : The Howard Women, 1485-1558 |
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| Description: | Gender, Family, and Politics is the first full-length, gender-inclusive study of the Howard family, one of the pre-eminent families of early-modern Britain. Most of the existing scholarship on this aristocratic dynasty's political operation during the first half of the sixteenth-century centres on the male family members, and studies of the women of the early-modern period tends to focus on class or geographical location. Nicola Clark, however, places women and the question of kinship in centre-stage, arguing that this is necessary to understand the complexity of the early modern dynasty. A nuanced understanding of women's agency, dynastic identity, and politics allows us to more fully understand the political, social, religious, and cultural history of early-modern Britain. |
| Authors: | Nicola Clark |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | History, Howard family, Women--Social conditions--16th century.--Gre, Women--History--16th century.--Great Britain, Nobility--History--16th century.--Great Brit, Nobility, Social conditions, Women, Women--Social conditions |
| Categories: | HISTORY / Women |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Gender, Family, and Politics is the first full-length, gender-inclusive study of the Howard family, one of the pre-eminent families of early-modern Britain. Most of the existing scholarship on this aristocratic dynasty's political operation during the first half of the sixteenth-century centres on the male family members, and studies of the women of the early-modern period tends to focus on class or geographical location. Nicola Clark, however, places women and the question of kinship in centre-stage, arguing that this is necessary to understand the complexity of the early modern dynasty. A nuanced understanding of women's agency, dynastic identity, and politics allows us to more fully understand the political, social, religious, and cultural history of early-modern Britain. |
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| ISBN: | 9780198784814 9780191087653 9780191087660 |