California State University, Fresno Department of History
HIST 129T: Women, Sex, and Power in Early Modern Europe
Spring 2004 Professor Maritere Lopez |
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Research Project: Topic Suggestions
General Topics:
� These are overall areas of research which you would narrow down to a viable topic.
� I would recommend, where possible, narrowing down your topic to one or two women writers, artists, etc.
Possible Primary Sources:
� These are just a few examples of possible primary sources. There are plenty more, so don’t limit yourself to these if nothing here interests you.
1. Check the “Other Voice in Early Modern Europe” series. It has a fine list of offerings, such as the correspondence of the Duchesse d’Orleans against marriage, Veronica Franco’s letters and poems (a 16th century courtesan), Anna Maria van Schurman’s treatise on whether Christian women should be educated, etc. The series is published by Chicago University Press, and you can check out the whole list of available titles through their website. Many of the titles are available in the Madden Library.
2. Women writers – there are dozens of them available in translation. Some examples are:
Glueckl of Hameln’s Memoirs
Cecilia Ferrazzi’s Autobiography of an Aspiring Saint
Her Immaculate Hand – an anthology of writings by female humanists
Selected writings of Christine de Pizan (several of her books are available)
Casandra Fedele’s Letters and Orations
Veronica Franco’s Letters and Poems
Any of the anthologies now available
� For other primary sources, you may search the net. Here are some particularly good sites:
Sunshine for Women
A good site for bibliographical references to early modern women’s primary sources in print.
http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/biblio/theobib2.html
For a bibliography of anthologies: http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/biblio/antholgy.html
Early Modern Resources: Women, Gender, Sexuality
Offers a list of thematically organized websites related to women and gender in the Early Modern Period.
http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/themes/womengs.htm
Letters Written by the Wives of Henry VIII
http://www.englishhistory.net/tudor/letters.html
Renascence Editions
Online repository of works printed in English between 1477 and 1799.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm
The Norton Anthology of English Literature
Offers primary sources and critical analyses thereof; subdivided into periods.
http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/17century/topic_1/welcome.htm
Medieval Sourcebook
Links to primary sources for the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This link is to witchcraft sources.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/witches1.html