Women S Private Practices Of Knowledge Production In Early Modern Europe

Author : Natacha Klein Käfer,Natália da Silva Perez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031447310

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Women’s Private Practices of Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe by Natacha Klein Käfer,Natália da Silva Perez Pdf

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 Lumley in England, Camila Herculiana in Padua, Victorine de Chastenay in Paris, as well as Elisabeth Sophie Marie and Philippine Charlotte in Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, will help us to exemplify the delicate balance between audacity and obedience that women had to employ to be able to explore science, literature, philosophy, theology, and other types of learned activities. Cases range from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, presenting continuities and discontinuities across temporal and geographical lines of the strategies that women used to protect their knowledge production and retain intact their reputations as good Christian daughters, wives, and mothers. Taken together, the essays show how having access to privacy—the ability to regulate access to themselves while studying and learning—was a crucial condition for the success of the knowledge activities these women pursued. This is an open access book.

Author : Johannes Ljungberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031466304

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Tracing Private Conversations in Early Modern Europe by Johannes Ljungberg Pdf

Author : Amanda L. Capern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000709599

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The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe by Amanda L. Capern Pdf

The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe is a comprehensive and ground-breaking survey of the lives of women in early-modern Europe between 1450 and 1750. Covering a period of dramatic political and cultural change, the book challenges the current contours and chronologies of European history by observing them through the lens of female experience. The collaborative research of this book covers four themes: the affective world; practical knowledge for life; politics and religion; arts, science and humanities. These themes are interwoven through the chapters, which encompass all areas of women’s lives: sexuality, emotions, health and wellbeing, educational attainment, litigation and the practical and leisured application of knowledge, skills and artistry from medicine to theology. The intellectual lives of women, through reading and writing, and their spirituality and engagement with the material world, are also explored. So too is the sheer energy of female work, including farming and manufacture, skilled craft and artwork, theatrical work and scientific enquiry. The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe revises the chronological and ideological parameters of early-modern European history by opening the reader’s eyes to an exciting age of female productivity, social engagement and political activism across European and transatlantic boundaries. It is essential reading for students and researchers of early-modern history, the history of women and gender studies.

Author : Pamela H. Smith,Benjamin Schmidt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226763293

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Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe by Pamela H. Smith,Benjamin Schmidt Pdf

Aims to bring together essays that explore how knowledge was obtained and demonstrated in Europe during an intellectually explosive four centuries, when standard methods of inquiry took shape across several fields of intellectual pursuit. This book looks at production and consumption of knowledge as a social process within different communities.

Author : Lucia Dacome
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198736189

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Malleable Anatomies by Lucia Dacome Pdf

An account of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy, showing how anatomical models became an authoritative source of medical knowledge, but also informed social, cultural, and political developments at the crossroads of medical learning, religious ritual, antiquarian and artistic cultures, and Grand Tour spectacle

Author : Tara E. Pedersen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317097211

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Mermaids and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern England by Tara E. Pedersen Pdf

We no longer ascribe the term ’mermaid’ to those we deem sexually or economically threatening; we do not ubiquitously use the mermaid’s image in political propaganda or feature her within our houses of worship; perhaps most notably, we do not entertain the possibility of the mermaid’s existence. This, author Tara Pedersen argues, makes it difficult for contemporary scholars to consider the mermaid as a figure who wields much social significance. During the early modern period, however, this was not the case, and Pedersen illustrates the complicated category distinctions that the mermaid inhabits and challenges in 16th-and 17th-century England. Addressing epistemological questions about embodiment and perception, this study furthers research about early modern theatrical culture by focusing on under-theorized and seldom acknowledged representations of mermaids in English locations and texts. While individuals in early modern England were under pressure to conform to seemingly monolithic ideals about the natural order, there were also significant challenges to this order. Pedersen uses the figure of the mermaid to rethink some of these challenges, for the mermaid often appears in surprising places; she is situated at the nexus of historically specific debates about gender, sexuality, religion, the marketplace, the new science, and the culture of curiosity and travel. Although these topics of inquiry are not new, Pedersen argues that the mermaid provides a new lens through which to look at these subjects and also helps scholars think about the present moment, methodologies of reading, and many category distinctions that are important to contemporary scholarly debates.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004512610

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Gendered Touch by Anonim Pdf

The history of science, the history of women, and gender history – Gendered Touch offers new perspectives on the intersections between the textual and the embodied nature of scientific knowledge in early modern Europe.

Author : Mlada Bukovansky,Edward Keene,Christian Reus-Smit,Maja Spanu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198873464

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The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations by Mlada Bukovansky,Edward Keene,Christian Reus-Smit,Maja Spanu Pdf

Historical approaches to the study of world politics have always been a major part of the academic discipline of International Relations, and there has recently been a resurgence of scholarly interest in this area. This Oxford Handbook examines the past and present of the intersection between history and IR, and looks to the future by laying out new questions and directions for research. Seeking to transcend well-worn disciplinary debates between historians and IR scholars, the Handbook asks authors from both fields to engage with the central themes of 'modernity' and 'granularity'. Modernity is one of the basic organising categories of speculation about continuity and discontinuity in the history of world politics, but one that is increasingly questioned for privileging one kind of experience and marginalizing others. The theme of granularity highlights the importance of how decisions about the scale and scope of historical research in IR shape what can be seen, and how one sees it. Together, these themes provide points of affinity across the wide range of topics and approaches presented here. The Handbook is organized into four parts. The first, 'Readings', gives a state-of-the-art analysis of numerous aspects of the disciplinary encounter between historians and IR theorists. Thereafter, sections on 'Practices', 'Locales', and 'Moments' offer a wide variety of perspectives, from the longue durée to the ephemeral individual moment, and challenge many conventional ways of defining the contexts of historical enquiry about international relations. Contributors come from a range of academic backgrounds, and present a diverse array of methodological and philosophical ideas, as well as their various historical interests. The Oxford Handbooks of International Relations is a twelve-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and innovative engagements with the principal sub-fields of International Relations. The series as a whole is under the General Editorship of Christian Reus-Smit of the University of Queensland and Duncan Snidal of the University of Oxford, with each volume edited by specialists in the field. The series both surveys the broad terrain of International Relations scholarship and reshapes it, pushing each sub-field in challenging new directions. Following the example of Reus-Smit and Snidal's original Oxford Handbook of International Relations, each volume is organized around a strong central thematic by scholars drawn from different perspectives, reading its sub-field in an entirely new way, and pushing scholarship in challenging new directions.

Author : Lesley B. Cormack,Steven A. Walton,John A. Schuster
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319494302

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Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe by Lesley B. Cormack,Steven A. Walton,John A. Schuster Pdf

This book argues that we can only understand transformations of nature studies in the Scientific Revolution if we take seriously the interaction between practitioners (those who know by doing) and scholars (those who know by thinking). These are not in opposition, however. Theory and practice are end points on a continuum, with some participants interested only in the practical, others only in the theoretical, and most in the murky intellectual and material world in between. It is this borderland where influence, appropriation, and collaboration have the potential to lead to new methods, new subjects of enquiry, and new social structures of natural philosophy and science. The case for connection between theory and practice can be most persuasively drawn in the area of mathematics, which is the focus of this book. Practical mathematics was a growing field in early modern Europe and these essays are organised into three parts which contribute to the debate about the role of mathematical practice in the Scientific Revolution. First, they demonstrate the variability of the identity of practical mathematicians, and of the practices involved in their activities in early modern Europe. Second, readers are invited to consider what practical mathematics looked like and that although practical mathematical knowledge was transmitted and circulated in a wide variety of ways, participants were able to recognize them all as practical mathematics. Third, the authors show how differences and nuances in practical mathematics typically depended on the different contexts in which it was practiced: social, cultural, political, and economic particularities matter. Historians of science, especially those interested in the Scientific Revolution period and the history of mathematics will find this book and its ground-breaking approach of particular interest.

Author : Ralph Dekoninck,Agnès Guiderdoni,Walter Melion
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004432260

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Quid est secretum? by Ralph Dekoninck,Agnès Guiderdoni,Walter Melion Pdf

This book examines how secret knowledge was represented visually in ways that both revealed and concealed the true nature of that knowledge, giving and yet impeding access to it.

Author : Alberto Cevolini
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004325258

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Forgetting Machines: Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe by Alberto Cevolini Pdf

Forgetting Machines. Knowledge Management Evolution in Early Modern Europe investigates the evolution of scholarly practices and the transformation of cognitive habits in the early modern age, focussing on the development of note-taking systems and data storage devices.

Author : Thomas Morel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009267304

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Underground Mathematics by Thomas Morel Pdf

History of the development of practical mathematics in early modern Europe through the practice of mining.

Author : Pamela Smith,Paula Findlen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135300357

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Merchants and Marvels by Pamela Smith,Paula Findlen Pdf

The beginning of global commerce in the early modern period had an enormous impact on European culture, changing the very way people perceived the world around them. Merchants and Marvels assembles essays by leading scholars of cultural history, art history, and the history of science and technology to show how ideas about the representation of nature, in both art and science, underwent a profound transformation between the age of the Renaissance and the early 1700s.

Author : Anne Murcott,Warren Belasco,Peter Jackson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472538987

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The Handbook of Food Research by Anne Murcott,Warren Belasco,Peter Jackson Pdf

The last 20 years have seen a burgeoning of social scientific and historical research on food. The field has drawn in experts to investigate topics such as: the way globalisation affects the food supply; what cookery books can (and cannot) tell us; changing understandings of famine; the social meanings of meals - and many more. Now sufficiently extensive to require a critical overview, this is the first handbook of specially commissioned essays to provide a tour d'horizon of this broad range of topics and disciplines. The editors have enlisted eminent researchers across the social sciences to illustrate the debates, concepts and analytic approaches of this widely diverse and dynamic field. This volume will be essential reading, a ready-to-hand reference book surveying the state of the art for anyone involved in, and actively concerned about research on the social, political, economic, psychological, geographic and historical aspects of food. It will cater for all who need to be informed of research that has been done and that is being done.

Author : Natalia Roudakova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107171121

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Losing Pravda by Natalia Roudakova Pdf

The story of the spectacular unravelling of journalism as a profession in Russia in the last thirty years.