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Anna Maria van Schurman was widely regarded as the most erudite woman in seventeenth-century Europe. As "the Star of Utrecht", she was active in a network of learning that included the most renowned scholars of her time. Known for her extensive learn...

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Letters from Spain A Seventeenth-Century French Noblewoman at the Spanish Royal Court

Gigault de Bellefonds Marie

ISBN: PB: 9781649590107, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
98 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 colour plates

Marie Gigault de Bellefonds, Marquise de Villars was a well-regarded figure in Parisian salons and esteemed by King Louis XIV, and she traveled internationally to accompany her ambassador husband, playing significant diplomatic roles at the court of...

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Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde

Butler Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9781649590183, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
760 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 colour plates, 5 halftones, 9 figures

This volume is the first to bring together the entire extant correspondence of one of the most significant women in early modern Ireland, Elizabeth Butler, first Duchess of Ormonde. She was the wife of James Butler, twelfth Earl and first Duke of Orm...

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Letters on Natural Philosophy The Scientific Correspondence of a Sixteenth-Century Pharmacist, with Related Texts

Erculiani Camilla

ISBN: PB: 9781649590022, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, December 2020
201 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates

In her Letters on Natural Philosophy, published originally in Krakow in 1584, Camilla Erculiani proposed her new theory of the natural causes of the universal flood in the biblical book of Genesis. Erculiani weaves together her understanding of Arist...

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