This study uncovers the active role played by women in the evolution of religious art and architecture. Their preferred art, Barbara J. Harris shows, reveals th

The role played by women in the evolution of religious art and architecture has been largely neglected. This study of upper-class women in the fifteenth and six

Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690 is the first collection to examine the gendered nature of women’s letter-writing in England a

This work, based on archival research, combines a collective portrait of aristocratic women with an analysis of the particular, class-specific form of patriarch

This book explores the ways that families were formed and re-formed, and held together and fractured, in Britain from the sixteenth to twentieth century. The ch