renaissance, 1450-1600

Contains biographical profiles of seventy women from the Medieval and Renaissance world.

Presents biographies of significant women who lived in Western Europe and the New World in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries.

Explores what life was like for women and girls from a wide range of classes, religions, and countries in Europe during the Renaissance.

Presents a history of Renaissance women between the fourteenth and seventeenth century in Europe and examines their individual roles as wives, mothers, and caregivers as well as in religious life, as scholars and scientists, writers and artists, and as queens.

Nineteen essays examine the Renaissance period of literature, covering Italian Renaissance literature, the northern humanist movement, poetry forms, prose, and English Renaissance drama; also includes a chronology and a bibliography.

Examines what life was like for women during the Renaissance, describing fashion, education, marriage, motherhood, and roles in various vocations; along with the lives of female saints and other noteworthy females.