CONTENTS
Volume 4 (2009)

Not Just Dutiful Wives and Besotted Ladies: Epistemic Agency in the War Writing of Brilliana Harley and Margaret Cavendish
Joanne H. Wright
1

A Life in Letters: Argula von Grumbach (1492-1556/7)        
Peter Matheson
27

Body of Empire: Caterina Corner in Venetian History and Iconography
Holly Hurlburt
61

Anne Bracegirdle on Fire: Historical and Contemporary Performance of a Seventeenth Century Mad Song       
Amber Youell

 
101

FORUM
Early Modern Women and Material Culture
Introduction                                                                                                    
135

“Monumental Circles” and Material Culture in Early Modern England           
Patricia Phillippy
139

Women and the Material Culture of Foods in Early Modern Germany         
Sheilagh Ogilvie, Markus Küpker, and Janine Maegraith
149

Objects, Ethics, and the Gendering of Sikh Memory                                                              
Anne Murphy
161

“The Secret Chamber and the Other Suspect Places”: Materiality, Space, and the Fall of Catherine Howard       
Bradley J. Irish
169

Music Books of Women: Private Treasures and Personal Revelations       
Lisa Urkevich                    

175

The Nun’s Crown    
Julie Hotchin 
187

Of Guns and Other Weapons in Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative  
Jasmine Lellock
195

Dressing a Virgin Queen: Court Women, Dress, and Fashioning the Image of England’s Queen Elizabeth I                           
Catherine L. Howey
201

Huron and Iroquois Mats
Whitney Leeson
209

Gifts to the Sisters: Erudition and Material Culture in Family Donations to the Ursulines at Troyes                           
Caroline R. Sherman
215

La Chymie for Women: Engaging Chemistry’s Bodies                                                            
Sandy Feinstein
223

“For the Use of Women”: Women and Books of Hours      
Virginia Reinburg
235

Dowering Elite Palestinian Women                                                                                         
Judith Tucker
241

REVIEWS AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Exhibition Review: Renaissance Art and Objects
Sheila ffolliott
247

Website Review: “Women Writers Online” and “The Orlando Project: A History of        
Women’s Writing in the British Isles”
Erin E. Kelly
259

Publications in Italian in Early Modern Women’s Studies, 2004-2009
Liliana Leopardi
265

THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF EARLY MODERN WOMEN 2008 PRIZE FOR A GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATION

Abstract: Mother Sawyer and her “sweet Tom-boy” in The Witch of Edmonton            
Sarah Johnson
273

BOOK REVIEWS

Thomasin LaMay, ed., Musical Voices of Early Modern Women: Many-Headed      
Melodies
Kelley A. Harness, Echoes of Women’s Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage
in Early Modern Florence
Valeria DeLucca

275

Anna Klosowska, ed. and trans., Madeleine de l’Aubespine, Selected Poems and Translations: A Bilingual Edition
Leah Chang
281

Darcy Donahue, ed. and trans., Ana de San Bartolomé: An Autobiography and       
Other Writings
Horacio Sierra
284

Rebecca Krug, Reading Families: Women’s Literate Practice in Late Medieval England       
Karrie Fuller
287

Albrecht Classen, The Power of a Woman’s Voice in Medieval and Early Modern      
Literatures: New Approaches to German and European Women Writers and to
Violence Against Women in Premodern Times
Maura Tarnoff
289

Charles H. Parker and Jerry H. Bentley, eds., Between Modernity and the Middle Ages:
Individual and Community in the Early Modern World
Maritere López
292

Kristen Post Walton, Catholic Queen, Protestant Patriarchy: Mary, Queen of Scots,             
and the Politics of Gender and Religion
Courtney Thomas
296
Jennifer C. Vaught, Masculinity and Emotions in Early Modern English Literature               
Anne Wohlcke
298

Kimberly Anne Coles, Religion, Reform, and Women’s Writing in Early Modern England  
James Goodrich
301

Last updated November 30, 2009