This book traces the beginnings of a shift from one model of gendered power to another. Over the course of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, tradi

An exploration of the cultural contexts of law-breaking and criminal prosecution in England, 1550-1750.

This book explores how women of the poorer and middling sorts in early modern England negotiated a patriarchal culture in which they were generally excluded, ma

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This Handbook asks how competition affects the presentation and experience of dance.