State of Virginity: Gender, Religion, and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic State

by Ulrike Strasser

Winner: 2005 Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women; Selected by the German Studies Association as one of the top five books of 2004 in early modern history

"A fresh, original study of gender roles and religious ideology in the early modern Catholic state. . . . Using a rich array of archival sources, Strasser explores ways in which an increasingly centralized Bavarian government in Munich inaugurated marriage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472032151
• ISBN13: 9780472032150
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"