Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clot

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This pioneering book explores for the first time how ordinary women of the early modern period in England understood and experienced their bodies. Using letters

In Malevolent Nurture, Deborah Willis explores the dynamics of witchcraft accusation through legal documents, pamphlet literature, religious tracts, and the pla