| Description |
xviii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-314) and index. |
| Contents |
Akka Mahadevi -- Sofonisba Anguissola -- Anne Askew -- Elizabeth Barton -- Blanche of Castile -- Bridget of Sweden -- Elizabeth Cary -- Catherine of Siena -- Christina of Denmark -- Christina of Markyate -- Margaret Giggs Clement -- Lady Anne Clifford -- Vittoria Colonna -- The Cooke Sisters -- Margherita Datini -- Marie Dentiere -- Jane Dormer -- Elisabeth of Schonau -- Elizabeth of Braunschweig -- Isabella d'Este -- Jacqueline Felicie -- Lavinia Fontana -- Veronica Franco -- Veronica Gambara -- Artemisia Gentileschi -- Giulia Gonzaga -- Argula von Grumbach -- Anne Halkett -- Elizabeth Hardwick -- Helisenne de Crenne -- Hrotsvit of Gandersheim -- Hurrem Sultan -- Esther Inglis -- Izumi Shikibu -- Jadwiga of Poland -- Juana of Castile -- Anna Komnena -- Helene Kottaner -- Louise Labe -- Aemilia Lanyer -- Lucretia de Leon -- Anne Locke -- Katherine Luther -- Malinche -- Margaret of Anjou -- Margaret of Austria -- Marguerite de Valois -- Mary of Hungary -- Mechthild of Magdeburg -- Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem -- Eleanor de Montfort -- Murasaki Shikibu -- Nzinga, Queen of Angola -- Ono no Komachi -- Caritas Pirckheimer -- Diane de Poitiers -- Marguerite Porete -- Raziya, the Sultan -- Renee of Ferrara -- Margaret More Roper -- Maria de Salinas -- Sei Shonagon -- Caterina Sforza -- Gaspara Stampa -- Arbella Stuart -- Levina Teerlinc -- Elizabeth Jane Weston -- Catherine Willoughby -- Mary Wroth -- Katharina Zell. |
| Summary |
Contains biographical profiles of seventy women from the Medieval and Renaissance world. |
| Subject |
Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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Women -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1450 -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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Women -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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Women -- Middle Ages.
(OCoLC)fst01907280
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Women -- Renaissance.
(OCoLC)fst01906677
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Vrouwen.
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Berühmte Persönlichkeit (DE-588)4191412-0
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Biografie (DE-588)4006804-3
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Frau (DE-588)4018202-2
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Frau.
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| Chronological Term |
500-1600
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Dictionaries. (OCoLC)fst01423826
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Dictionaries.
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| Added Author |
Levin, Carole, 1948-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Extraordinary women of the Medieval and Renaissance world. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000 (OCoLC)988768296 |
| ISBN |
0313306591 (alk. paper) |
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9780313306594 (alk. paper) |
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