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Early Modern Women an Interdisciplinary Journal Early Modern Women an interdisciplinary journal Volume III, 2008 Editors Jane Donawerth Adele Seeff Diane Wolfthal Book Review Editor Editorial Assistant Artistic Director Karen L. Nelson Margaret Rice Richard Chapman Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies University of Maryland, College Park Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Volume III Editorial Board, 2007–2008 Jane Couchman Karen L. Nelson Jane Donawerth Adele Seeff Nancy Gutierrez Mihoko Suzuki Amy Leonard Diane Wolfthal Katherine McIver Susanne Woods Margaret Mikesell Editorial Advisors, 2002–2008 Julia Marciari Alexander, Susan Dwyer Amussen, Linda Austern, Cristelle Baskins, Judith Bennett, Pamela J. Benson, Sheila Cavanagh, Elizabeth Cohen, Nicola Courtwright, Margaret Ezell, Susan Dinan, Valeria Finucci, Carole Collier Frick, Amy Froide, Mary Garrard, Elizabeth Hageman, Margaret Hannay, Joan E. Hartman, Wendy Heller, Margaret Hunt, Ann Rosalind Jones, Gwynne Kennedy, Andrea Knox, Natasha Korda, Thomasin K. LaMay, Mary Ellen Lamb, Elizabeth Lehfeldt, Carole Levin, Pamela O. Long, Phyllis Mack, Muriel McClendon, Sara H. Mendelson, Naomi J. Miller, Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Lori Humphrey Newcomb, Lena Cowen Orlin, Mary Elizabeth Perry, Patricia Phillippy, Anne Lake Prescott, Albert Rabil, Jr., Phyllis Rackin, Magdalena S. Sanchez, Deanna Shemek, Bruce Smith, Hilda Smith, Sara Jayne Steen, Betty S. Travitsky, Retha Warnicke, Elspeth Whitney, Naomi Yavneh, Abby Zanger, Georgianna Ziegler Acknowledgements arly Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (EMWJ) is co- sponsored by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies (CRBS) atE the University of Maryland and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. For their continued support of EMWJ, our warm- est thanks go to the Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, James F. Harris; Kent Cartwright, chair of the Department of English; and Bonnie Thornton Dill, chair of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland. We are grateful to the members of the Editorial Board, made up of two elected from the Planning Committee of the “Attending to Early Modern Women” (ATW) symposium and four appointed from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (EMW), who review essays, amend proce- dures, offer new ideas for content and direction, and suggest outside review- ers. We would also like to thank the Editorial Advisors of EMWJ, made up of the Planning Committee of the ATW symposium and the committee chairs of EMW since 2002, for helping to mold EMWJ into an innova- tive, interdisciplinary journal. And for their crucial and continued financial support, we extend sincerest thanks to the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference. EMWJ owes its success to the efforts and dedication of a great num- ber of people. Our gratitude goes to Harriette Andreadis, Kathleen Barker, Elizabeth Child, Anne Coldiron, Marsha Collins, Anne Daye, Pamala S. Deane, Stephanie Fink DeBacker, Katie Field, Todd Halvorsen, Sonja Hansard-Weiner, Joan Hartman, Helen King, Deborah Losse, Rebecca Lush, Meei-Ching Ma, Sheila Buckingham Maleski, Christopher Martin, Peter Matheson, Eyda Merediz, Elisabeth Nivre, Katharine Park, Meg Pearson, Anne Lake Prescott, Melissa Sites, Gerhild Scholz Williams, Betty Travitsky, Sherry Velasco, Theresia de Vroom, Andrew Weiner, Joy Wiltenburg, and Susanne Woods. Finally, our gratitude to the staff of CRBS, whose hard work and col- laborative efforts—for example, in editing, design, publicity, and subscription iv EMWJ 2008, vol. 3 Acknowledgements management—have nurtured EMWJ into a vibrant and expanding journal. As can be seen from the title page, this volume has been co-published by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Thanks to this partnership, EMWJ has benefited from the advice of Robert Bjork, director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Contents Essays “Thy Righteousness is but a menstrual clout”: Sanitary Practices and Prejudice in Early Modern England ..............................................................1 Sara Read Inscribing Gender on the Early Modern Body: Marital Violence in German Texts of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century ............................27 Katja Altpeter-Jones Elizabeth Cary’s Female Trinity: Breaking Custom with Mosaic Law in The Tragedy of Mariam .................................................................................61 Cristina León Alfar A Women’s Republic of Letters: Anna Maria van Schurman, Marie de Gournay, and Female Self-Representation in Relation to the Public Sphere .......................................................................................................... 105 Anne R. Larsen Women’s Musical Voices in Sixteenth-Century England ...................... 127 Lynda Phyllis Austern Demure Transgression: Portraying Female “Saints” in Post-Tridentine Italy .................................................................................. 153 Helen Hills Forum The Rise of the Mercantile Economy and Early Modern Women Forum Introduction ................................................................................... 209 Femininity in the Marketplace: The Ideal Woman in Fourteenth-Century Florence ................................................................... 211 Juliann Vitullo Merchant Wives, Agency, and Ambivalence in Early Modern Studies .......................................................................................................... 217 Ann Christensen vi EMWJ 2008, vol. 3 Contents Gaining Honor as Husband’s Deputy: Margherita Datini at Work, 1381–1410 .................................................................................................. 225 Ann Crabb Widows, Legal Rights, and the Mercantile Economy of Early Modern Milan ............................................................................................................ 233 Jeanette M. Fregulia Identifying Women Proprietors in Wills from Fifteenth-Century London ......................................................................................................... 239 Kate Kelsey Staples Women, Objects, and Exchange in Early Modern Florence ................. 245 Ann Matchette ***** The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Graduate Student Conference Presentation Prize: Abstract, Rembrandt’s The Death of the Virgin, Cartesianism, and Modernity in the Dutch Republic ............... 253 Elissa Auerbach Mujeres que saben latín: Publications in Spanish in Early Modern Women’s Studies, 2004-2007.................................................................... 257 Ana Kothe Je nomme ceci votre proumenoir: Publications in French in Early Modern Women’s Studies, 2004-2007.................................................................... 271 Stéphane Pillet Exhibition Review: Images of Women in Old Master Prints and Drawings / Images by Women in Old Master Prints and Drawings, Spaightwood Galleries, Upton, MA ......................................................... 309 Jodi Cranston Contents vii Book Reviews Early Modern Women and the Genesis of Modern Science: A Review Essay: Judith P. Zinsser, Men, Women, and the Birthing of Modern Science; Lianne McTavish, Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France; Katharine Park, Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection ......................................................... 319 Elspeth Whitney John Newton and Jo Bath, Witchcraft and the Act of 1604 .................... 325 Raisa Maria Toivor Sylvia Brown, Wonder, Gender and Radical Religion in Early Modern Europe ........................................................................................................... 328 Carrie F. Klaus Edith Snook, Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England ......................................................................................................... 331 Katheryn Giglio Gina Bloom, Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England .......................................................................................... 333 Erin Minear Kate Chedgzoy, Women’s Writing in the British Atlantic World: Memory, Place and History, 1550–1700 ................................................................... 335 Anita Gilman Sherman Dympna Callaghan, The Impact of Feminism in English Renaissance Studies ........................................................................................................... 338 Pamela Hammons Gabrielle Langdon, Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love, and Betrayal from the Court of Duke Cosimo I................................................................ 341 Joyce de Vries The Marian Catholic Revival: A Review Essay: Eamon Duffy and David Loades, The Church of Mary Tudor; William Wizeman, S. J., The Theology and Spirituality of Mary Tudor’s Church ................................... 344 Robert Scully, S. J. viii EMWJ 2008, vol. 3 Contents Classical Medicine and the Origins of Gynecology: A Review Essay: Helen King, Midwifery, Obstetrics, and the Rise of Gynecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium; Eve Keller, Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves: The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England ............................................................................................................350 Rachana Sachdev Contributors ..........................................................................................
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