Paternal Tyranny

Author : Arcangela Tarabotti
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226789675

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Paternal Tyranny by Arcangela Tarabotti Pdf

Sharp-witted and sharp-tongued, Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-52) yearned to be formally educated and enjoy an independent life in Venetian literary circles. But instead, at sixteen, her father forced her into a Benedictine convent. To protest her confinement, Tarabotti composed polemical works exposing the many injustices perpetrated against women of her day. Paternal Tyranny, the first of these works, is a fiery but carefully argued manifesto against the oppression of women by the Venetian patriarchy. Denouncing key misogynist texts of the era, Tarabotti shows how despicable it was for Venice, a republic that prided itself on its political liberties, to deprive its women of rights accorded even to foreigners. She accuses parents of treating convents as dumping grounds for disabled, illegitimate, or otherwise unwanted daughters. Finally, through compelling feminist readings of the Bible and other religious works, Tarabotti demonstrates that women are clearly men's equals in God's eyes. An avenging angel who dared to speak out for the rights of women nearly four centuries ago, Arcangela Tarabotti can now finally be heard.

Author : Joanne M. Ferraro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0198033117

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Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice by Joanne M. Ferraro Pdf

Based on a fascinating body of previously unexamined archival material, this book brings to life the lost voices of ordinary Venetians during the age of Catholic revival. Looking at scripts that were brought to the city's ecclesiastical courts by spouses seeking to annul their marriage vows, this book opens up the emotional world of intimacy and conflict, sexuality, and living arrangements that did not fit normative models of marriage.

Author : S. Jansen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230118812

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Reading Women's Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing by S. Jansen Pdf

In this work, Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men. These imagined "women's worlds" may be very small, a single room, for example, but many women writers are much more ambitious, fantasizing about cities, even entire countries, created for and inhabited exclusively by women.

Author : Anne R. Larsen,Diana Robin,Carole Levin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781851097777

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Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance by Anne R. Larsen,Diana Robin,Carole Levin Pdf

This work is a revealing combination of biographies and topical essays that describe the outstanding and often-overlooked contributions of women to the science, politics, and culture of the Renaissance. Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England is the first first comprehensive reference devoted exclusively to the contributions of women to European culture in the period between 1350 and 1700. Focusing principally on early modern women in England, France, and Italy, it offers over 135 biographies of the extraordinary women of those times. Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance provides vivid portraits of well known women such as Catherine of Siena, Joan of Arc, Mary Queen of Scots, and Christine de Pizan. Also included are less familiar but equally important women like Elena Lucrezia Cornaro, the first woman in Europe to earn a doctorate; the renowned Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi; and the acclaimed author of medical textbooks and midwife to a French queen, Louise Boursier. Based on the latest research and enhanced with thematic essays, this groundbreaking work casts our understanding of women's lives and roles in Renaissance history and culture in a provocative new light.

Author : Nancy Klancher
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110321388

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The Taming of the Canaanite Woman by Nancy Klancher Pdf

Current reception histories emphasize the world of Biblical readers, their socio-historical contexts, and the myriad effects of Biblical exegesis. This reception history studies interpretations of Jesus’ encounter with a Canaanite woman (Matt 15:21–28) as normative “scripts” that exhort specific types of compliance in a broad range of historical and cultural settings, revealing remarkably diverse understandings of Christian identity and community.

Author : Antonios Ampoutis,Marios Dimitriadis,Sakis Dimitriadis
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527523944

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Violence and Politics by Antonios Ampoutis,Marios Dimitriadis,Sakis Dimitriadis Pdf

In this volume, a new generation of researchers explore and demonstrate the interaction between politics and violence in the context of Greek and European history. In terms of focus, the articles here extend over a time span stretching from the Greek classical period to the twentieth century. The ancient Greek polis, medieval and early modern Europe, Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire, nineteenth-century Britain and the Greek society of the 1940s are some of the historical periods in which the relationship between violence and politics is examined. At the same time, the authors tackle important themes concerning this relationship, such as legitimate and illegitimate violence, violence from above and from below, resistance and revolt, authority and subordination, and gendered and political violence.

Author : Allen C. Guelzo
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802842933

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Abraham Lincoln by Allen C. Guelzo Pdf

This biography of the sixteenth president explores Lincoln's life and political career along with insights into his philosophy, religious views, and moral character.

Author : Sharon L. Jansen
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131768405

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Debating Women, Politics, and Power in Early Modern Europe by Sharon L. Jansen Pdf

The sixteenth century was an age of politically powerful women. Queens, acting in their own right, and female regents, acting on behalf of their male relatives, governed much of Western Europe. Yet even as women ruled—and ruled effectively—their right to do so was hotly contested. Men’s voices have long dominated this debate, but the recovery of texts by women now allows their voices, long silenced, to be heard once again. Debating Women, Politics, and Power in Early Modern Europe is a study of texts and textual production in the construction of gender, society, and politics in the early modern period. Jansen explores the “gynecocracy” debate and the larger humanist response to the challenge posed by female sovereignty.

Author : Samuel L. Terrien
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802822371

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Till the Heart Sings by Samuel L. Terrien Pdf

Samuel Terrien systematically shows that when the books of the Old and New Testaments are viewed in their historical growth, they reveal a theology of manhood and womanhood that runs counter to modern religious attitudes and practices.

Author : Mary D. Garrard
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789142396

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Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D. Garrard Pdf

An accessible introduction to the life of the seventeenth-century's most celebrated women artists, now in paperback. Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women’s problematic relationship to political power. Her powerful paintings with vigorous female protagonists chime with modern audiences, and she is celebrated by feminist critics and scholars. This book breaks new ground by placing Gentileschi in the context of women’s political history. Mary D. Garrard, noted Gentileschi scholar, shows that the artist most likely knew or knew about contemporary writers such as the Venetian feminists Lucrezia Marinella and Arcangela Tarabotti. She discusses recently discovered paintings, offers fresh perspectives on known works, and examines the artist anew in the context of feminist history. This beautifully illustrated book gives for the first time a full portrait of a strong woman artist who fought back through her art.

Author : Meredith K. Ray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003813897

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Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance by Meredith K. Ray Pdf

• This book offers an engaging, well-researched introduction to the influential female figures who helped lay the foundations of Renaissance culture, making it easy for educators to integrate women’s history into the study of the past and for the general reader to gain a reliable, richly detailed overview. • Each chapter functions as a stand-alone study, combining an engaging narrative biography with an expert grasp of the cultural, political, and artistic context of this historical period to allow students and lecturers to either use parts or the whole of this book to support their studies and teaching. • Taken as a whole, students will be shown that these women were not isolated cases of female exceptionality, but rather a part of a larger and more complex tapestry of Renaissance achievement, one that connects them to one another as well as to the male writers, artists, and leaders whose names many readers will already know. • Interwoven within each chapter are primary sources (letters, poems, sketches) and portraits of each of the women discussed, providing students with a fuller picture of these women.

Author : Nancy Calvert-Koyzis,Heather E. Weir
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589834538

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Strangely Familiar by Nancy Calvert-Koyzis,Heather E. Weir Pdf

Poetic imagination, intertextuality, and life in a symbolic world / Roy F. Melugin -- Persistent vegetative states: people as plants and plants as people -- In Isaiah / Patricia K. Tull -- Like a mother I have comforted you: the function of figurative -- Language in Isaiah 1:7-26 and 66:7-14 / Chris A. Franke -- A bitter memory: Isaiah's commission in Isaiah 6:1-13 / A. Joseph Everson -- Poetic vision in Isaiah 7:18-25 / H.G.M. Williamson -- YHWH's sovereign rule and his adoration on Mount Zion: a -- Comparison of poetic visions in Isaiah 24-27, 52, and 66 / Willem A.M. Beuken -- The legacy of Josiah in Isaiah 40-55 / Marvin A. Sweeney -- Spectrality in the prologue to Deutero-Isaiah / Francis Landy -- The spider-poet: signs and symbols in Isaiah 41 / Hyun Chul Paul Kim -- Consider the source: a reading of the servant's identity and task in Isaiah 42:1-9 / James M. Kennedy -- "They all gather, they come to you": history, utopia, and the reading of Isaiah 49:18-26 and 60:4-16" / Roy D. Wells -- From desolation to delight: the transformative vision of Isaiah 60-62 / Carol J. Dempsey -- The nations' journey to Zion: pilgrimage and tribute as metaphor in the book of Isaiah / Gary Stansell.

Author : Anthony Pagden
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191029837

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Worlds at War by Anthony Pagden Pdf

The differences that divide West from East go deeper than politics, deeper than religion, argues Anthony Pagden. To understand this volatile relationship, and how it has played out over the centuries, we need to go back before the Crusades, before the birth of Islam, before the birth of Christianity, to the fifth century BCE. Europe was born out of Asia and for centuries the two shared a single history. But when the Persian emperor Xerxes tried to conquer Greece, a struggle began which has never ceased. This book tells the story of that long conflict. First Alexander the Great and then the Romans tried to unite Europe and Asia into a single civilization. With the conversion of the West to Christianity and much of the East to Islam, a bitter war broke out between two universal religions, each claiming world dominance. By the seventeenth century, with the decline of the Church, the contest had shifted from religion to philosophy: the West's scientific rationality in contrast to those sought ultimate guidance it in the words of God. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries witnessed the disintegration of the great Muslim empires - the Ottoman, the Mughal, and the Safavid in Iran - and the increasing Western domination of the whole of Asia. The resultant attempt to mix Islam and Western modernism sparked off a struggle in the Islamic world between reformers and traditionalists which persists to this day. The wars between East and West have not only been the longest and most costly in human history, they have also formed the West's vision of itself as independent, free, secular, and now democratic. They have shaped, and continue to shape, the nature of the modern world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1458 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1801
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000080762044

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The British Critic by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tiffany K. Wayne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313345814

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Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World [2 volumes] by Tiffany K. Wayne Pdf

Collecting more than 200 sources in the global history of feminism, this anthology supplies an insightful record of the resistance to patriarchy throughout human history and around the world. From writings by Enheduana in ancient Mesopotamia (2350 BCE) to the present-day manifesto of the Association of Women for Action and Research in Singapore, Feminist Writings from Ancient Times to the Modern World: A Global Sourcebook and History excerpts more than 200 feminist primary source documents from Africa to the Americas to Australia. Serving to depict "feminism" as much broader—and older—than simply the modern struggle for political rights and equality, this two-volume work provides a more comprehensive and varied record of women's resistance cross-culturally and throughout history. The author's goal is to showcase a wide range of writers, thinkers, and organizations in order to document how resistance to patriarchy has been at the center of social, political, and intellectual history since the infancy of human civilization. This work addresses feminist ideas expressed privately through poetry, letters, and autobiographies, as well as the public and political aspects of women's rights movements.