LEADER 03077nam 22005773 450 001 996565570103316 005 20240311195506.0 010 $a90-485-5642-2 024 8 $ahttps://doi.org/10.1515/9789048556427 035 $a(CKB)27254224600041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30607325 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30607325 035 $a(DE-B1597)664215 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789048556427 035 $a(OCoLC)1382315634 035 $a(ScCtBLL)86193312-ee9b-4d35-9d7e-a124d8245f61 035 $a(EXLCZ)9927254224600041 100 $a20231009d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEuropean Women's Letter-Writing from the 11th to the 20th Centuries 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aAmsterdam :$cAmsterdam University Press,$d2023. 210 4$dİ2023. 215 $a1 online resource (297 pages) 311 $a9789463723381 327 $tFrontmatter --$tTable of Contents --$tIntroduction --$t1. Authority and the Self: the Letters of Medieval Women --$t2. The Rise of Vernacular Letter-writing --$t3. The Triumph of the Familiar Letter --$t4. Intimate Letters --$tEpilogue: Women's Letters come to an End --$tAcknowledgements --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThis book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It explores the changing ways that women used correspondence for self-expression and political mobilization over this period, enabling them to navigate the myriad gendered restrictions that limited women's engagement in the world. Whether written from the medieval cloister, or the renaissance court, or the artisan's workshop, or the drawing room, letters crossed geographical and social distance and were mobile in ways that women themselves could not always be. Women wrote to govern, to argue, to plead, and to demand. They also wrote to express love and intimacy, and in so doing, to explain and to understand themselves. This book argues that the personal letter was a crucial place for European women's self-fashioning, and that exploring the history of their letters offers a profound insight into their subjectivity and agency over time. 606 $aLetter writing$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aWomen$zEurope$xSocial conditions$xHistory 606 $aHISTORY / Medieval$2bisacsh 608 $aAnthologies$2lcgft 610 $aEpistolarity, Gender, Family, Women. 615 0$aLetter writing$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions$xHistory. 615 7$aHISTORY / Medieval. 676 $a809.6 700 $aMonagle$b Clare$01129346 701 $aJames$b Carolyn$0164872 701 $aGarrioch$b David$0615520 701 $aCaine$b Barbara$0154130 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996565570103316 996 $aEuropean Women's Letter-Writing from the 11th to the 20th Centuries$93568933 997 $aUNISA