From the award-winning author of The Gentleman's Daughter, a witty and academic
illumination of daily domestic life in Georgian England. In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery …

During the early modern period, men and women in England lived their lives within a social
and gender framework inherited from biblical times. Patriarchy-the social and cultural …

The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England is the eagerly-awaited study by
the feminist scholar who was among the first to address the issue of early modern female …

English Society, 1580-1680 paints a fascinating picture of society and rural change in the
late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Keith Wrightson discusses both the enduring …

Working life of Women in the Seventeenth Century, originally published in 1919, was the first
comprehensive analysis of the daily lives of ordinary women in early modern England. It …

A lively social history of the roles of men and women-from workplace to household, from
parish church to alehouse, from market square to marriage bed. Robert Shoemaker …

The study of early modern cancer is significant for our understanding of the period's medical
theory and practice. In many respects, cancer exemplifies the flexibility of early modern …

Portraits of aristocratic women from the Yorkist and Tudor periods reveal elaborately clothed
and bejeweled nobility, exemplars of their families' wealth. Unlike their male counterparts …

The book is the first full analysis of the gentry in the early modern period since GE Mingay
The Gentry: the Rise and Fall of a Ruling Class (1976). It offers a synthesis of the recent …

The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing provides an introduction to the ever-
expanding field of early modern women's writing by reading texts in their historical and …