CONTENTS
Volume I (2006)

   
Letter from the Editors
JANE DONAWERTH,
ADELE SEEFF,
DIANE WOLFTHAL, EDITORS
1

‘High Housewifery’: the Duties and Letters of Barbara Gamage Sidney, Countess of Leicester

MARGARET P. HANNAY 7

Bocche Inutili: Incorporating Pisa in the Florentine Imaginary

CRISTELLE L. BASKINS 37
Maladies up Her Sleeve? Clerical Interpretation of a Suffering Female Body in Counter-Reformation Spain SUSAN LANINGHAM 69
Suppressing Women Philosophers: The Case of the Early
Modern Canon
JOHN J. CONLEY, SJ 99

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Ermine: Elizabeth I’s Coronation Robes and Mothers’ Legacies in Early Modern England

ELIZABETH MAZZOLA 115
A Renaissance Woman (Still) Adrift in the World
MERRY E. WIESNER-HANKS 137
Book Reviews    

Wendy Heller, Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women’s Voices in
Seventeenth-Century Venice


SARAH F. WILLIAMS 159
Amy Leonard, Nails in the Wall: Catholic Nuns in
Reformation Germany

REBECCA CLARK NYKWEST 162
Maria Bogucka, Women in Early Modern Polish Society, Against the
European Background

ELIZABETH DRIVER 165
Nancy Bradley Warren, Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 1380–1600
SUSAN DINAN 168
Jane Couchman and Ann Crabb, editors, Women’s Letters Across Europe, 1400–1700: Form and Persuasion
ERIN A. SADLACK 171
Pamela Allen Brown and Peter Parolin, editors, Women Players in England, 1500–1660: Beyond the All-Male Stage
MEG PEARSON 175
Contributors   179