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The Cooke sisters: Education, piety and politics in early modern England (Politics Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain MUP)
Gemma Allen
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Description for The Cooke sisters: Education, piety and politics in early modern England (Politics Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain MUP)
Paperback. A study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to formal humanist education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians. Series: Politics, Culture & Society in Early Modern Britain. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Now available in paperback, this book is a study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to a formal education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians. Drawing particularly on the sisters' own writings, this book demonstrates that the sisters' education extended far beyond that normally allowed for sixteenth-century women, challenging the view that women in this period were excluded from using their formal education to practical effect. It reveals that the sisters' learning provided them with opportunities to communicate effectively their own priorities through their ... Read more
Now available in paperback, this book is a study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to a formal education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians. Drawing particularly on the sisters' own writings, this book demonstrates that the sisters' education extended far beyond that normally allowed for sixteenth-century women, challenging the view that women in this period were excluded from using their formal education to practical effect. It reveals that the sisters' learning provided them with opportunities to communicate effectively their own priorities through their ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719099779
SKU
V9780719099779
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About Gemma Allen
Gemma Allen is Lecturer in Early Modern History at The Open University and a Retained Lecturer at Pembroke College, Oxford -- .
Reviews for The Cooke sisters: Education, piety and politics in early modern England (Politics Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain MUP)
'Allen sets an ambitious program; fortunately, she moves through it with clarity, concision, and an unflagging commitment to evidential probity, as well as the careful contextualization of the materials she treats. She does so in part to correct what she compellingly claims are errors embedded in both older and relatively recent treatments not only of the Cooke sisters but of ... Read more