Focusing on the vastly understudied area of how women participated in the book trades, not just as authors, but also as patrons, copyists, illuminators, publish

This work considers how Frenchwomen participated in Christian religious practice during the sixteenth century, with their words and their actions. Using extensi

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Maria Sibylla Merian, a German painter and naturalist, produced an innovative work on tropical insects based on lore she gathered from the Carib, Arawak, and Af