Sara Read: 3 books
Maids, Wives, Widows
Exploring Early Modern Women's Lives, 1540–1740
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
A broad-ranging exploration of the everyday lives of women—from social calls to medical needs—during one of English history’s most fascinating periods.
Maids, wives, and widows were the official classifications of women according to English law in the early modern era, immediately following...
Maladies and Medicine
Exploring Health & Healing, 1540–1740
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Maladies and Medicine offers a lively exploration of health and medical cures in early modern England. The introduction sets out the background in which the body was understood, covering the theory of the four humors and the ways that male and female bodies were conceptualized. It also explains the...
Flesh and Spirit
An anthology of seventeenth-century women's writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Ten little-known and under-studied works by seventeenth-century women (edited from manuscript and print) that explore the relationship between spiritual and physical health in the period