European Women's Letter-Writing from the 11th to the 20th Centuries

by Carolyn James, David Garrioch, Clare Monagle

This 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9463723382
• ISBN13: 9789463723381
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"