Women's Letters Across Europe, 1400-1700

In response to a growing interest, among historians as well as literary critics, in women''s use of the epistolary genre, Women''s Letters Across Europe, 1400-1700: Form and Persuasion analyzes persuasive techniques in the personal correspondence of late medieval and early modern women. It includes studies of well-known women (Isabella d''Este, Teresa of Avila, Marguerite de Navarre, Catherine de ...