In this accessible biographical guide, relive Europe's most exciting of periods - the time of the Renaissance and the Reformation, the time of da Vinci and Erasmus, and the time of Elizabeth I and Oliver Cromwell.
This volume challenges the view that women have not contributed to the historical development of political ideas, and highlights the depth and complexity of women’s political thought in the centuries prior to the French Revolution.
From the late medieval period to the enlightenment, a significant number of European women wrote works dealing with themes of political significance. The essays in this collection examine their writings with particular reference to the ideas of virtue, liberty, and toleration. The figures discussed include Christine de Pizan, Catherine d’Amboise, Isabella d’Este, Elizabeth I, Katherine Chidley, Elizabeth Poole, Margaret Cavendish, Damaris Masham, Mary Astell, Elizabeth Carter, Catharine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Cornélie Wouters.
These women actively contributed to the political practice and discourse of their times. Some of the women question their exclusion from political power and argue in favour of women’s virtue, prudence, and capacity to govern. Others aim to demonstrate women’s spiritual equality with men, to defend liberty of conscience, and to highlight the importance of education as a means to moral development.
Bear and Roly-Poly (a picture book by Elizabeth Winthrop)
Bear, the diminutive stuffed-animal hero who adjusted to having a
baby-sitter in Bear and Mrs. Duck, welcomes a cuddly cub sibling into
the family in the latest Winthrop/Brewster collaboration. When Nora,
Bear's owner, goes off to Grandma's house to get a baby sister for
Bear, he imagines he'll be a helpful big brother. But he never expected
that "baby" Roly-Poly would be larger than himself, or that she would
not look at all like him (she is a panda), or that she would cry so
much.
Kimberley
Stewart is inexplicably drawn to the memory of her ancestor Elizabeth who was
inextricably associated with the Salem Witch Trials of the seventeenth century.
Such was her involvment that she has remained a taboo subject within the family
ever since. Intrigued and convinced that Elizabeth is innocent, Kim sets out to
renovate the old family house and discover exactly what atrocity her ancestor
was accused of.
However, Kim is not the only one making investigations, her scientist
boyfriend, Edward Armstrong, discovers a bacterial mould in Elizabeth's cellar
which he isolates into a remarkable anti depressant. All appears to be going
fantastically well and the new "feel good" drug, Ultra, seems to be a
miracle find which can only lead to great wealth and happiness. "Ultra"
is allegedly free of side effects but as Edward's behaviour becomes
increasingly erratic and the mutilated corpses of animals begin to show up near
the laboratory Kim decides to investigate the truth. The peace of Salem is
threatened by a modern day witch hunt and it becomes imperative for Kim to
discover the link between the past and the present.
