Women's Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe

This open access book explores knowledge practices by five women from different European contexts. Contributors document, analyze, and discuss how women employed practices of privacy to pursue knowledge that did not necessarily conform with the curriculum prescribed for them. The practices of Jane L...

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Other Authors: Klein Käfer, Natacha (Editor), da Silva Perez, Natália (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Edition:1st ed. 2024.
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Table of Contents:
  • Situating Women's Private Practices of Knowledge Production in the Early Modern Context
  • References
  • Lady Jane Lumley's Private Education and Its Political Resonances
  • Introduction: Education at a Noble Household
  • The Private, the Public, and the Political in Lady Lumley's Writings
  • Lady Lumley's The Tragedie of Euripides Called Iphigeneia
  • Comparing Translations of Iphigenia at Aulis
  • In Conclusion
  • References
  • Camilla Herculiana (Erculiani): Private Practices of Knowledge Production
  • Herculiana's Private Life and Connections: Biographical and Contextual Framework
  • Camilla Herculiana é Gregetta, Lettere di philosophia naturale (1584)
  • Inquisitional Trial
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • From Behind the Folding Screen to the Collège de France: Victorine de Chastenay's Privacy Dynamics for Knowledge in the Making
  • Note-Taking and Knowledge Acquisition as Private Practices
  • Adapting the Household's Privacy to Reconcile Writing and Social Obligations
  • Privacy in Institutional Spaces
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • "Fait à mes heures de loisir": Women's Private Libraries as Spaces of Learning and Knowledge Production
  • The Ducal Libraries: Private Collections?
  • Elisabeth Sophie Marie and Philippine Charlotte of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel The Duchesses' Book Use and Knowledge Production
  • Private Knowledge Spaces: Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • Contingent Privacies: Knowledge Production and Gender Expectations from 1500 to 1800
  • Women's Knowledges and Publicizing the Private
  • Knowledge Production at Home
  • Women, Knowledge, and Their Bodies
  • References.