Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe:

Surveying court life and urban life, warfare, religion and peace, this book provides a comprehensive history of how gender was experienced in early modern Europe.
Gender, Power, and Privilege in Early Modern Europe shows how definitions of sexuality and gender roles operated and, more particularly, how such definitions - and the activities they generated and reflected - articulated concerns inside a given culture. This means that the volume embodies an interdisciplinary approach: literature as well as history, religious studies, economics and gender studies form the basis of this cultural history of early modern Europe.

Penny Richards is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Gloucestershire.