Routledge Women's Letters Across Europe 1400-1700 - Early Modern History

Women's Letters Across Europe, 1400-1700: Form and Persuasion examines how late medieval and early modern women wielded epistolary techniques to influence and persuade through personal correspondence. This scholarly work analyses the letter-writing practices of prominent figures including Isabella d'Este, Teresa of Avila, Marguerite de Navarre, and Catherine de Medicis, alongside lesser-known correspondents such as Alessandra Macigni Strozzi, Louise de Coligny, Glikl of Hameln, Argula von Grumbach, Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza, Anna Maria von Schurman, and Barbara of Brandenburg. Published by Routledge as part of the Women and Gender in the Early Modern World series, this book addresses growing scholarly interest in how women utilised the epistolary genre to communicate, negotiate, and assert influence across European societies during a transformative historical period.