Early Modern Women in Conversation

Larson, Katherine R.

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“…72 Not only were the boundaries of the private sphere elsewhere for Sibilla, but she also had different perceptions of what appropriate topics and proper manners were in these settings. 73 Moreover, the diarist clearly linked his sister's behaviour with vehemence and bad manners. Weinsberg was particularly concerned with good manners throughout his life.…”

Section: Virtues Of Silence and Speakingmentioning

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“Alone Amongst Ourselves”: How to Talk in Private According to the Cologne Diarist, Hermann von Weinsberg (1518–1597)

Péter

2024

Tracing Private Conversations in Early Modern Europe

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This chapter examines the diarist Hermann von Weinsberg’s descriptions of everyday conversations, which are incredibly revealing of the notions of privacy within his social circles. Weinsberg recorded these conversations in his diary, a record meant to be kept secret from his contemporaries but at the same time intended to be read by his future family members. The chapter explores the creative textual approaches (writing about some conversations at a later time, trying to hide them entirely, subtle hints, referring to other texts, switching to Latin, etc.) that the diarist used while trying to balance between these two aims in his records. Péter’s contribution highlights different spaces in which private conversations could take place, and how people could negotiate what they understood to be the boundaries of privacy while communicating with people.

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Section: Virtues Of Silence and Speakingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Alone Amongst Ourselves”: How to Talk in Private According to the Cologne Diarist, Hermann von Weinsberg (1518–1597)

Péter

2024

Tracing Private Conversations in Early Modern Europe

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“…18 Determinists question the value of seeking signs of female agency at all, inviting us to think instead in terms of ideological practices constraining both sexes. 19 Later theorists see agency as possible, but emphasise the reciprocal relationship between the 'discursive subject' and their social milieu; discourses are multiple, and themselves changed or stabilised via individual articulation. 20 Patriarchal ideals of silence were widely propagated, but the historical debate has shifted to the strategies used by women like Lucy Hutchinson to circumvent them.…”

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Women’s experience of violence and suffering as represented in loyalist accounts of the English Civil War

McCall

2019

Women's History Review

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is an early modern historian specialising in sixteenth and seventeenth-century religious and social history. Her work focuses on anti-clericalism, religious conflict, family and memory within parishes during and after the English Civil wars. She has published a book, Baal's Priests: the Loyalist Clergy and the English Revolution (Ashgate, 2013) and other papers on loyalist culture. She is currently writing a book on religious conflict in English parishes during the Commonwealth period, funded by the British Academy.

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“…14 Katherine Larson has explored the "liminal status" of the female closet, showing that it was both a private space for affective devotion and a conversational space at the threshold of various transactions. 15 A funeral sermon for Elizabeth Thomason (d. 1659) uses a metaphor of conversation to depict Thomason's devotional practice inside the closet. We are told that Thomason "was a great lover of privacy and retirement, not at all given to idleness or tatling or wandring about from house to house, but very much conversant in her closet, reading and praying. "…”

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Seventeenth-Century Funeral Sermons and Exemplary Female Devotion: Gendered Spaces and Histories

Molekamp¹

2012

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Les sermons de funérailles du XVIIe siècle, qui contiennent des eulogies pour des femmes décédées, peuvent être riches en détails et en constructions conceptuelles éclairant la vie dévotionnelle des femmes des débuts de la modernité. Cet article explore dans une sélection de ces eulogies les différentes représentations de l’espace spécifiquement féminin de la lecture, de la méditation et de la prière. On y examine également l’utilisation, dans ces sermons, de récits de lutte sur leur lit de mort contre Satan, afin de décrire une version féminine des dernières heures de la vie et de la lutte pour vaincre les tentations diaboliques. On y démontre que l’espace intime et le lit de mort féminins sont construits dans ces textes de telle sorte qu’ils y apparaissent comme des espace fonctionnant comme des frontières entre les espaces public et privé et entre la chasteté et la sexualité. Cet article souligne également la tension présente dans ces eulogies entre l’expression du pouvoir féminin d’action sur le plan religieux, et l’établissement de limites et de principes exemplaires de spiritualité féminine.

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Early Modern Women in Conversation

Cited by 12 publications

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“Alone Amongst Ourselves”: How to Talk in Private According to the Cologne Diarist, Hermann von Weinsberg (1518–1597)

“Alone Amongst Ourselves”: How to Talk in Private According to the Cologne Diarist, Hermann von Weinsberg (1518–1597)

Women’s experience of violence and suffering as represented in loyalist accounts of the English Civil War

Seventeenth-Century Funeral Sermons and Exemplary Female Devotion: Gendered Spaces and Histories

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