{"title":"India’s Everywomen in the Early Modern Archive","authors":"B. Malieckal","doi":"10.1086/723562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723562","url":null,"abstract":"In the summer of 2022, India’s media was awash with the election of Droupadi Murmu as the nation’s fifteenth president. Murmu is the first woman from a tribal community—the Santhal, of the village of Mayurbhanj in Odisha—to hold the office. PrimeMinister NarendraModi, who belongs to the same political party as Murmu, hailed her victory: “India scripts history. . . . She has emerged as a ray of hope for our citizens especially the poor, marginalized and the downtrodden.” Murmu’s advancement is a milestone because tribal groups are often victims of discrimination, with women doubly oppressed. However, “Droupadi” is not Murmu’s given first name, and “Murmu” is her husband’s surname. She was born Puti Tudu. A teacher renamed or, more accurately, relabeled her “Droupadi.” Puti was a local girl, one ofmany like her and subsisting as her ancestors did for millennia. Droupadi is the name of a queen in the great Indian epic The Mahabharatha. While Puti’s teacher may have been trying to honor or integrate her into mainstreamHindu culture by dubbing her “Droupadi,” either way doing so indicates that the teacher considered “Puti” insignificant enough to erase her indigeneity. So, who was Puti and who are similar Indian women of the everyday? In early modern scholarship, the focus—mine included—has been about women akin to “Droupadi Murmu,” women in politics or women elites, from queens like the","PeriodicalId":41850,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Women-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"7 1","pages":"367 - 371"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86911521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"My Husband Is Also My Daughter: The Social History of the Bantu Matrilineal Zone, 1450–1800","authors":"Christine Saidi","doi":"10.1086/723561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/723561","url":null,"abstract":"T he title of this essay is based on an old religious concept that dates to at least 1500 CE among the matrilineal peoples in modern Zambia. A Zambian mother, to cite one instance, lost her twenty-one-year-old daughter. To nurture and ease her into the world of ancestors, a family member must take in her spirit. The mother ’ s husband agreed to this. The result is that the mother ’ s husband is also her daughter, and sister and father to the rest of their children. In various social, religious, and political contexts, individuals who were anatomically or socially one identity could, through social actions or spiritual transitions, embody various gen-ders intersecting from one world, one life stage, or one social title to the next. These kinds of changes are especially supported in ethnographic studies and oral traditions that represent social activity between 1450 and 1800.","PeriodicalId":41850,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Women-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"362 - 366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80063331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":Early Modern Women’s Complaint: Gender, Form, and Politics","authors":"D. Sokolov","doi":"10.1086/721866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721866","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41850,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Women-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74709089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":Miracles of Love: French Fairy Tales by Women","authors":"Aurora Wolfgang","doi":"10.1086/721863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/721863","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41850,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Women-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"221 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77256309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250–1550. Edited by Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 330 pp. €109.00. ISBN 9789463724517.","authors":"Olivia Weisser","doi":"10.1086/720069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/720069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41850,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Women-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78084163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Matriarchal Piety in the Seventeenth Century: Lady Barbara Hyde and Her Network of Clergy Kinsmen","authors":"H. Kemp","doi":"10.1086/719366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719366","url":null,"abstract":"arly modern women could express aspects of agency in their lives through their personal writings and in their involvement in family networks. In seventeenth-century England, women ’ s sermon notes provide insight into religious ideas and con-troversies, as well as the political climate, women ’ s place in the public sphere, and how rhetoric was used. 1 Although few examples survive, sermon diaries are often mentioned in funeral sermons, and taking notes during these occasions must have been a common practice for literate women. 2 Moreover, women ’ s note taking can provide insight into women ’ s speci fi c concerns and perspectives, adding to our grow-ing understanding of their participation in the multifaceted culture of sermons. 3 This article was developed from a case study in my PhD thesis, “ Collecting, Communicating, and Commemorating: The Signi fi cance of Thomas Plume ’ s Manuscript Collection, Left to His Library in Maldon, Est. 1704 ” (PhD diss., University of Essex, 2017). I would like to thank all those who advised me and commented on the various stages of this research. 1 (Cambridge:","PeriodicalId":41850,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Women-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"26 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81119361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Her Twelve Gardens: An Examination of Caterina de’ Vigri’s Feminine Soundscapes","authors":"Aaron Beck","doi":"10.1086/720810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/720810","url":null,"abstract":"Caterina de’Vigri (1413–1463) is best known to musicologists for her violeta, an instrument that survives and is found in the Corpus Domini Monastery of Bologna. Born in Bologna, she received her education in the household of the D’Este family in Ferrara and returned to Bologna as abbess of the convent of Poor Clares in the church of Corpus Domini. She was a visual artist, wrote and illuminated her own breviary, and penned laudas, stories, and poetry.While musicologists have examined her violeta, they have yet to investigate the sonic world evoked in her I dodici giardini (Twelve gardens). In this article, I will shed light on de’Vigri’s feminine musical soundscape by examining mentions of music in an early biography and her own descriptions of music-making in her I dodici giardini. I will argue that","PeriodicalId":41850,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Women-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"16 1","pages":"118 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84935883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Of the Organs of Her Minde”: The Keyboard Diplomacy of Elizabeth I","authors":"Jennifer Linhart Wood","doi":"10.1086/720814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/720814","url":null,"abstract":"Themusical talents of Elizabeth I are widely known. Less acclaimed, however, is the fact that she employed her musical abilities in the service of a globally expanding political agenda. During her reign, elaborate keyboard instruments were dispatched to foreign rulers in order to cultivate strategic diplomatic and commercial relationships. Two organs were gifted through theMuscovy and Levant Companies, intended to solidify English alliances with the Russian and Ottoman Empires. The choice of an organ in both instances highlights the desirability of keyboard instruments in the global marketplace, especially as these lavish gifts reflected Elizabeth’s majestic status and the viability of England as a trading and diplomatic partner. A gilt and enameled organ was transported to Russia when Russia had minimal connection to the Anglo world; the goal of this present was to cement ties with the newly crowned Tsar Feodor I, son of Ivan “the Terrible.” Elizabeth later gifted another organ—this time, to Mehmed III, who had also succeeded his father as sultan of the Ottoman Empire several years earlier. Its expansive musical range, animatronic trumpeters, clock, and nest of singing blackbirds made this organ constructed by Thomas Dallam especially magnificent. Letters from the Russian and Ottoman embassies document that Feodor andMehmed and their courts were astonished by these musical gifts, reacting with","PeriodicalId":41850,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Women-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"213 1","pages":"108 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91304700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Soundscapes of Wellness: Music in an Early Modern English Recipe Book","authors":"Sarah Koval","doi":"10.1086/720812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/720812","url":null,"abstract":"Thus lamented a lovesick Duke Orsino to his retinue, as unspecified music opened Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. While perhaps not Orsino’s intention, this now-famous metaphor underscores an enduring partnership between music and food.Whether singing broadside ballads at public houses and taverns; entertaining guests at social, diplomatic, and business feasts; or singing daily prayers at family meals, early modern conviviality involved music and food in concert—both could satiate body and soul. One source for early modern bodily care through consumables is the manuscript recipe book, compiling handwritten instructions to make food and medicine. Yet, despite growing attention given to recipe books for their insight into domestic food, as well as medical and scientific practice, their nonrecipe entries, such as jests, magic tricks, and, indeed, music, have largely gone unaddressed.","PeriodicalId":41850,"journal":{"name":"Early Modern Women-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"148 1","pages":"97 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80643575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}