Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Early Modern Holy Roman Empire

Challenging the conception that only men shaped the Holy Roman Empire, this book provides students and general readers with biographies of preachers, nuns, princesses, businesswomen, artists scientists, writers and social movers who exercised agency in the Holy Roman Empire.

Autorentext

Katrin Keller is Director of the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria.

Inhalt

The Sixteenth Century: Preachers, Nuns and Dynastic Women

2. Caritas (Barbara) Pirckheimer (146732): The Learned Nun

3. Katharina Zell (1497/9862): A Woman who Preached

4. Maria of Hungary (150558): On Behalf of the Dynasty

5. Elisabeth of Brunswick-Calenberg (151058): A Princess as Reformer

6. Anna of Saxony (153285): Of Princely Domains and Good Medicines

7. Archduchess Maria of Inner Austria (155108): How a Mother Shapes her Children

8. Polyxena of Lobkowicz (156642): Between Bohemia and Spain

9. Anna of Brandenburg (157625): How Prussia came to Brandenburg

10. Maria Magdalena Haidenbucher (157650): Abbess in Troubled Times

11. Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (163394): The Poet in Exile

12. Maria Sybilla Merian (164717): Science and Painting

13. Glikl bas Judah Leib (1647?24):

14. Empress Eleonora Magdalena (165520): How to Care for Your Siblings

15. Maria Aurora von Kigsmarck (166228): The Mistress in the Imperial Abbey

16. Erdmuthe Benigna of Reu-Ebersdorf (167032): Women and the Pietist Movement

17. Maria Margaretha Kirch (167020):

18. Luise Adelgunde Gottsched (171362): More than the Woman at his Side

19. Dorothea Erxleben (171562): A Medical Doctor Prevails

20. Empress Maria Theresa (171780): The Heiress

21. Anna Dorothea Therbusch (172182): From Innkeeper to Court Painter

22. Anna Barbara Gignoux (172596):

23. Sophie von La Roche (173007):

24. Amalie Gallitzin (174806): Philosophy, Religion, and Conviviality

25. Maria Theresia Paradis (175924): The Blind Pianist

26.Henriette Herz (176447): A Salon in Berlin