Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800

by Jacqueline Broad and Karen Green

Book Overview

List of Illustrations.- Acknowledgements and Note on the Text.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction; Jacqueline Broad, Karen Green.- 1. Political Thought as Improvisation: Female Regency and Mariology in Late Medieval French Thought; Earl Jeffrey Richards.- 2. Phronesis Feminised: Prudence from Christine de Pizan to Elizabeth I; Karen Green.- 3. Catherine d'Amboise's Livre des Prudents et Imprudents: Negotiating Space for Female Voices in Political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402058942
• ISBN13: 9781402058943
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"