Contents
Introduction
Aemilia Lanyer, Edmund Spenser,and the Literary Hymn
The Virgin and the Globe
“A veil of obscure mourning”
Forum: Women and Alchemyin Early Modern Europe
Introducing Women’s Alchemical Cultures
Alchemy and Cultures of Knowledgeamong Early Modern Women
Women Alchemists and the Paracelsian Context
Scents and Celestinas
Alchemical Bodies
Experience, Authority, and the Alchemy of Language
East of Italy
Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe
Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe
Sartorial Politics in Early Modern Europe: Fashioning Women
Forgotten Healers
Sofonisba’s Lesson
Arms and the Woman
Lady Fanshawe’s Receipt Book
Women’s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain
Editing Early Modern Women
English Aristocratic Women and the Fabric of Piety
English Convents in Catholic Europe
The Care of Nuns
Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities
Travel and Travail
Shakespeare’s Foreign Queens
Early Modern Women and the Problem of Evil
Anna, Duchess of Cleves
Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain
Women’s Negotiations and Textual Agency in Latin America
El muerto disimulado / Presumed Dead
Contributors