Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe (Paperback, 1)

Acknowledgements, List of Figures, Notes on Contributors, 1. Introduction: Early Modern European Women and the Edge, Section I: Life on the Edge, 2. 'At the mercy of a strange woman': Plague Nurses, Marginality, and Fear during the Great Plague of 1665, 3. Chemistry, Medicine, and Beauty on the Edge: Marie Meurdrac, 4. Anna Stanislawska's Orphan Girl of 1685: Autobiography of a Divorce, Section II: Witchcraft and the Edge, 5. Touching on the Margins: Elizabeth Sawyer's Body in Performance and Print, 6. Anna Trapnel: Prophet or Witch?, Section III: Courtly Women on the Edge, 7. Wife, Widow, Exiled Queen: Beatrice d'Aragona (1457-1508) and Kinship in Early Modern Europe, 8. On the Edge of the S(h)elf: Arbella Stuart, 9. Cecilia of Sweden: Princess, Margravine, Countess, Regent, 10. 'Elizabeth the Forgotten': The Life of Princess Elizabeth Stuart (1635-1650), Epilogue: The Early Modern Edge in the Twenty-first Century, 11. Catalina de Erauso-'the Lieutenant Nun'-at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, Index