Amanda L Capern
Biographic Data
| ID | 1105800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda L Capern |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda L |
| FAMILY NAME | Capern |
| SIGNATURE | CAPERN A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion, and Exile, 1550–1850
Gender, property and succession in the early modern English aristocracy: The case of Martha Janes and her illegitimate children
This article addresses the boundaries of female power within early modern aristocratic families. It examines the family arrangements of Lord Emmanuel Scroop whose marriage to Elizabeth Manners was childless. The research sets out to uncover Lord Scroop’s relationship with his servant, Martha Janes, and the property litigation pursued by Janes on behalf of their four illegitimate children whom Lord Scroop left his family estates to. The article sh…
Women and the Land, 1500-1900
Women and the Land, 1500–1900
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The Routledge History Of Women In Early Modern Europe
Vives emphasizes needlework as an appropriate occupation for all women, even for ‘a princess or a queen’. A wide variety of schools run by individual tradesmen or women offered instruction in certain fields, such as writing and calculus, while schools erected or licensed by the authorities concentrated on religious education. A large group of orphanages founded during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries provided a sound education for bo…
More than bricks and mortar: Female property ownership as economic strategy in mid-nineteenth-century urban England
This article uses a quantitative and qualitative methodology to examine the role that women played as property owners in three mid-nineteenth-century English towns. Using data from the previously under-utilized rate books, we argue that women were actively engaged in urban property ownership as part of a complex financial strategy to generate income and invest speculatively. We show that female engagement in the urban land and property markets wa…
Maternity and Justice in the Early Modern English Court of Chancery
This article is a case study of female litigants acting in the capacity of mother in the English equity court of Chancery between 1550 and 1700. It starts by asking how prevalent mothers were as plaintiffs and defendants in Chancery, though the burden of the article is a qualitative analysis of maternal narratives in Chancery pleadings and the use of gendered tropes such as “poor mother.” Stepmothers and women acting in loco parentis—aunts, grand…
Challenging Orthodoxies: The Social and Cultural Worlds of Early Modern Women, ed. Sigrun Haude and Melinda S. Zook
This is a collection of essays presented to Hilda L. Smith, Emerita Professor of the University of Cincinnati and pre-eminent feminist historian, whose works, such as Reason’s Disciples (1982; rev. ante, cccxcvii [1985], 893–4) and All Men and Both Sexes (2002) have defined a generation of feminist scholarship in early modern English women’s history. The collection is edited by Sigrun Haude and Melinda Zook, who, in her introduction, speaks of ‘H…
Rumour and Reputation in the Early Modern English Family
This article explores the role of rumour, or the hearsay and gossip that circulated in a community, in eroding or maintaining reputations within and across families; it considers the nature of gossip, including the way it carried gender connotations, and the social dynamics involved in the passage of rumour from local community to the central law courts. Early modern people regularly entered into bitter disputes over wills, money and inheritance,…
The fantasy of feminist history
The Fantasy of Feminist History comprises a collection of Joan Wallach Scott's essays bounded by a think-piece introduction and an epilogue. In this way (but only in this way) they are reminiscent
New Perspectives on the English Reformation
The historiography of the English Reformation has been driven by several key themes for three or four decades: the chronology of religious change and the success or failure of Protestantism to establish itself, the position of Puritanism vis‐à‐vis Church conformity, the role of Arminianism (anti‐Calvinism) in doctrinal and ecclesiological debates and its impact on ecclesiastical politics and, more latterly, the continuities of ideas and beliefs b…
Cassandra Brydges (1670-1735), First Duchess of Chandos: Life and letters - By Rosemary O'Day
Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern England
This collection of sixteen essays considers evidence for the array of women's alliances in early modern England. The inclusions range over a variety of communities-cities, households, and court-and consider classes of women from vagabonds to queens to explore the traces of women's connections. These clear and lively interdisciplinary essays, combining literary and historical methods and materials, are informed by feminism, queer theory, and studi…
The Mothers Legacy to Her Vnborn Childe
The mother's advice book represents a distinctly female literary genre appearing in seventeenth-century England. According to the conventions of this form, a mother leaves written instructions, of a predominantly spiritual nature, as a legacy to her children. The Mothers Legacy, written by Elizabeth Joscelin, is particularly significant for its documentation of ideas about women's education, authorship, and spirituality. With her writing, the aut…
Winston Churchill, Mark Sykes and the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915
In the Brynmor Jones Library, University of Hull, the draft and two carbon copies of a letter from Mark Sykes to Winston Churchill dated 27 January 1915 are catalogued as DDSY(2)/4/81. The top-copy of this letter no longer seems to exist; it does not appear in Martin Gilbert's companion volume for Churchill 1914-16 and is not used in his biographical account of those years. It also was not used by Roger Adelson when he wrote his biography of Mark…
The Caroline church: James Ussher and the Irish dimension
Recent works by Kevin Sharpe and Julian Davies have revised thinking about the religious policies of the Caroline church. Davies's distinction between ‘Laudianism’ and ‘Carolinism’ sums up one of the major conclusions he shares with Sharpe; that Charles I was the initiator of many of the religious policies previously attributed to William Laud. The following article tests this conclusion by viewing the religious policies emanating from England th…
More than bricks and mortar: Female property ownership as economic strategy in mid-nineteenth-century urban England
This article uses a quantitative and qualitative methodology to examine the role that women played as property owners in three mid-nineteenth-century English towns. Using data from the previously under-utilized rate books, we argue that women were actively engaged in urban property ownership as part of a complex financial strategy to generate income and invest speculatively. We show that female engagement in the urban land and property markets wa…
Maternity and Justice in the Early Modern English Court of Chancery
This article is a case study of female litigants acting in the capacity of mother in the English equity court of Chancery between 1550 and 1700. It starts by asking how prevalent mothers were as plaintiffs and defendants in Chancery, though the burden of the article is a qualitative analysis of maternal narratives in Chancery pleadings and the use of gendered tropes such as “poor mother.” Stepmothers and women acting in loco parentis—aunts, grand…
The Caroline church: James Ussher and the Irish dimension
Recent works by Kevin Sharpe and Julian Davies have revised thinking about the religious policies of the Caroline church. Davies's distinction between ‘Laudianism’ and ‘Carolinism’ sums up one of the major conclusions he shares with Sharpe; that Charles I was the initiator of many of the religious policies previously attributed to William Laud. The following article tests this conclusion by viewing the religious policies emanating from England th…
New Perspectives on the English Reformation
The historiography of the English Reformation has been driven by several key themes for three or four decades: the chronology of religious change and the success or failure of Protestantism to establish itself, the position of Puritanism vis‐à‐vis Church conformity, the role of Arminianism (anti‐Calvinism) in doctrinal and ecclesiological debates and its impact on ecclesiastical politics and, more latterly, the continuities of ideas and beliefs b…
The Caroline church: James Ussher and the Irish dimension
Recent works by Kevin Sharpe and Julian Davies have revised thinking about the religious policies of the Caroline church. Davies's distinction between ‘Laudianism’ and ‘Carolinism’ sums up one of the major conclusions he shares with Sharpe; that Charles I was the initiator of many of the religious policies previously attributed to William Laud. The following article tests this conclusion by viewing the religious policies emanating from England th…
Winston Churchill, Mark Sykes and the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915
In the Brynmor Jones Library, University of Hull, the draft and two carbon copies of a letter from Mark Sykes to Winston Churchill dated 27 January 1915 are catalogued as DDSY(2)/4/81. The top-copy of this letter no longer seems to exist; it does not appear in Martin Gilbert's companion volume for Churchill 1914-16 and is not used in his biographical account of those years. It also was not used by Roger Adelson when he wrote his biography of Mark…
Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern England
This collection of sixteen essays considers evidence for the array of women's alliances in early modern England. The inclusions range over a variety of communities-cities, households, and court-and consider classes of women from vagabonds to queens to explore the traces of women's connections. These clear and lively interdisciplinary essays, combining literary and historical methods and materials, are informed by feminism, queer theory, and studi…
The Mothers Legacy to Her Vnborn Childe
The mother's advice book represents a distinctly female literary genre appearing in seventeenth-century England. According to the conventions of this form, a mother leaves written instructions, of a predominantly spiritual nature, as a legacy to her children. The Mothers Legacy, written by Elizabeth Joscelin, is particularly significant for its documentation of ideas about women's education, authorship, and spirituality. With her writing, the aut…
New Perspectives on the English Reformation
The historiography of the English Reformation has been driven by several key themes for three or four decades: the chronology of religious change and the success or failure of Protestantism to establish itself, the position of Puritanism vis‐à‐vis Church conformity, the role of Arminianism (anti‐Calvinism) in doctrinal and ecclesiological debates and its impact on ecclesiastical politics and, more latterly, the continuities of ideas and beliefs b…
Cassandra Brydges (1670-1735), First Duchess of Chandos: Life and letters - By Rosemary O'Day
The fantasy of feminist history
The Fantasy of Feminist History comprises a collection of Joan Wallach Scott's essays bounded by a think-piece introduction and an epilogue. In this way (but only in this way) they are reminiscent
Rumour and Reputation in the Early Modern English Family
This article explores the role of rumour, or the hearsay and gossip that circulated in a community, in eroding or maintaining reputations within and across families; it considers the nature of gossip, including the way it carried gender connotations, and the social dynamics involved in the passage of rumour from local community to the central law courts. Early modern people regularly entered into bitter disputes over wills, money and inheritance,…
Challenging Orthodoxies: The Social and Cultural Worlds of Early Modern Women, ed. Sigrun Haude and Melinda S. Zook
This is a collection of essays presented to Hilda L. Smith, Emerita Professor of the University of Cincinnati and pre-eminent feminist historian, whose works, such as Reason’s Disciples (1982; rev. ante, cccxcvii [1985], 893–4) and All Men and Both Sexes (2002) have defined a generation of feminist scholarship in early modern English women’s history. The collection is edited by Sigrun Haude and Melinda Zook, who, in her introduction, speaks of ‘H…
Women and the Land, 1500-1900
Women and the Land, 1500–1900
Book summary page views Book summary page views help Close Book summary page views help Book summary views reflect the number of visits to the book and chapter landing pages. Total views: 0 * Loading metrics...
The Routledge History Of Women In Early Modern Europe
Vives emphasizes needlework as an appropriate occupation for all women, even for ‘a princess or a queen’. A wide variety of schools run by individual tradesmen or women offered instruction in certain fields, such as writing and calculus, while schools erected or licensed by the authorities concentrated on religious education. A large group of orphanages founded during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries provided a sound education for bo…
More than bricks and mortar: Female property ownership as economic strategy in mid-nineteenth-century urban England
This article uses a quantitative and qualitative methodology to examine the role that women played as property owners in three mid-nineteenth-century English towns. Using data from the previously under-utilized rate books, we argue that women were actively engaged in urban property ownership as part of a complex financial strategy to generate income and invest speculatively. We show that female engagement in the urban land and property markets wa…
Maternity and Justice in the Early Modern English Court of Chancery
This article is a case study of female litigants acting in the capacity of mother in the English equity court of Chancery between 1550 and 1700. It starts by asking how prevalent mothers were as plaintiffs and defendants in Chancery, though the burden of the article is a qualitative analysis of maternal narratives in Chancery pleadings and the use of gendered tropes such as “poor mother.” Stepmothers and women acting in loco parentis—aunts, grand…
Gender, property and succession in the early modern English aristocracy: The case of Martha Janes and her illegitimate children
This article addresses the boundaries of female power within early modern aristocratic families. It examines the family arrangements of Lord Emmanuel Scroop whose marriage to Elizabeth Manners was childless. The research sets out to uncover Lord Scroop’s relationship with his servant, Martha Janes, and the property litigation pursued by Janes on behalf of their four illegitimate children whom Lord Scroop left his family estates to. The article sh…
Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion, and Exile, 1550–1850
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