Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Biographic Data
| ID | 518919 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Merry Wiesner-Hanks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Merry |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiesner-Hanks |
| SIGNATURE | WIESNER-HANKS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Widow City
Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity
Examining women’s agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women’s Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider women’s agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both increasing patriarchal constraints and new forms of women’s actions and activism. They address a capacious set of questions about how women, from their teenage years th…
Matrix
Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity
This series provides a forum for studies that investigate women, gender, and/ or sexuality in the late medieval and early modern world.The editors invite proposals for book-length studies of an interdisciplinary nature, including, but not exclusively, from the fields of history, literature, art and architectural history, and visual and material culture.Consideration will be given to both monographs and collections of essays.Chronologically, we we…
Taking the Temperature of Early Modern Studies
The big and the small of it
Histories have long been written on a variety of scales. Arguably, all historians shift scales within their works, and some historians have changed scales quite dramatically across their works too. There has been little reflection or discussion, however, on scale shifting in history making, including on why it is done and how it has been received. History theorist Marnie Hughes-Warrington explores the nature and purpose of scale shifting in this …
Verlockungen
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Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World
Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World
Is time gendered? This international, interdisciplinary anthology studies the early modern era to analyse how material objects express, shape, complicate, and extend human concepts of time and how people commemorate time differently. It examines conceptual aspects of time, such as the categories women and men use to define it, and the somatic, lived experiences of time ranging between an instant and the course of family life. Drawing on a wide ar…
Teaching the Reformation
Overlaps and Intersections in New Scholarship on Empires, Beliefs, and Emotions
Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies
Reflections on Events that Marked the Anniversary of the Reformation
Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
Comparisons and Consequences in Global Perspective, 1500–1750
This chapter places the Protestant Reformation in a global perspective in two ways, using methods and examining themes common in world history as a field. First, it compares the Reformation to other religious transformations that were occurring at roughly the same time, including the early development of Sikhism, reform movements within Chinese Confucianism, and the reinvigoration of Islam in the Songhay Empire by King Askia the Great. Second, it…
Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns
Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World
The book surveys the ways in which Christian ideas and institutions shaped sexual norms and conduct from the time of Luther and Columbus to that of Thomas Jefferson. It is global in scope and geographic in organization, with chapters on Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia, and North America. All the key topics are covered, including marriage and divorce, fornication and illegitimacy, clerical sexuality, same-…
Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World
Writing and Editing Texts for the 21st Century Classroom
Gender History and Global History
A Tribute to Raymond B. Waddington, Outgoing Senior Editor
In Memoriam
In Memoriam
The Future of Sixteenth Century Studies, or, Nostradamus Speaks in Many Voices
A History of the Sixteenth Century Journal and Conference
The Sixteenth Century Journal and the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (SCSC; now the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference) both grew out of an October 1969 conference held on the campus of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. The Foundation for Reformation Research (later titled the Center for Reformation Research), housed near the Concordia campus, organized the conference to bring together younger and senior scholars with interes…
The big and the small of it
Histories have long been written on a variety of scales. Arguably, all historians shift scales within their works, and some historians have changed scales quite dramatically across their works too. There has been little reflection or discussion, however, on scale shifting in history making, including on why it is done and how it has been received. History theorist Marnie Hughes-Warrington explores the nature and purpose of scale shifting in this …
John Calvin and the Daughters of Sarah
John Lee Thompson. John Calvin and the Daughters of Sarah: Women in Regular and Exceptional Roles in the Exegesis of Calvin, His Predecessors, and His Contemporaries. (Travaux d'humanisme et Renaissance, 259.) Geneva: Droz, 1992. xii + 308 pp. - Volume 47 Issue 4
Women on the Margins
Convents Confront the Reformation
Divine Domesticity
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Traditional Orthodoxies and New Approaches
Before I begin to offer my analysis of what the Encyclopedia of the Reformation tells us about Reformation studies, I should first explain my role in its production. I have been one of six senior editors, responsible for what was loosely termed "social history and popular religion." Four of the other editors have been in charge of specific geographic areas, and David Steinmetz has been in charge of theology, so I have generally thought of my role…
Katharina Schutz Zell. Vol. 1
Profiles of Anabaptist Women
During the upheavals of the Reformation, one of the most significant of the radical Protestant movements emerged -- that of the Anabaptist movement. Profiles of Anabaptist Women provides lively, well-researched profiles of the courageous women who chose to risk prosecution and martyrdom to pursue this unsanctioned religion -- a religion that, unlike the established religions of the day, initially offered them opportunity and encouragement to pros…
Leben im Abseits
Frauen in der Geschichte des Rechts
Gender in Early Modern Europe
Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Gender in Debate from the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Writing Women’s History Since the Renaissance by Mary Spongberg
"Writing Women’s History Since the Renaissance by Mary Spongberg." Canadian Journal of History, 39(1), pp. 205–206
Studying gender and religion
Feminist scholarship in religion began with the first wave of the women’s movement in the nineteenth century, but became much more extensive with the second-wave women’s movement in the 1970s. This scholarship first explored women’s religious experiences, and then began to investigate the relationships between gender and religion more broadly, what Ursula King has described as a ‘double paradigm shift’. It is now clear that without using gender a…
Witch Craze
Lyndal Roper. Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany. New Haven and London : Yale University Press, 2004. xiv + 362 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $35. ISBN: 0-300-10335-2. - Volume 58 Issue 3
Women's History and World History Courses
Research Article| January 01 2005 Women's History and World History Courses Merry Wiesner-Hanks Merry Wiesner-Hanks Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (91): 133–150. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2005-91-133 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Ico…
In Memoriam
The Future of Sixteenth Century Studies, or, Nostradamus Speaks in Many Voices
A History of the Sixteenth Century Journal and Conference
The Sixteenth Century Journal and the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (SCSC; now the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference) both grew out of an October 1969 conference held on the campus of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. The Foundation for Reformation Research (later titled the Center for Reformation Research), housed near the Concordia campus, organized the conference to bring together younger and senior scholars with interes…
Women at Work in Preindustrial France (review)
Reviewed by: Women at Work in Preindustrial France Merry Wiesner-Hanks (bio) Women at Work in Preindustrial France. By Daryl Hafter. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. Pp. 328. $55. Daryl Hafter’s book examines women who worked in cloth production in two of France’s key centers of that trade, Rouen and Lyon. In the former city, women could become members and even masters in a number of guilds, eight that were associated w…
Gender History and Global History
A Tribute to Raymond B. Waddington, Outgoing Senior Editor
In Memoriam
Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World
The book surveys the ways in which Christian ideas and institutions shaped sexual norms and conduct from the time of Luther and Columbus to that of Thomas Jefferson. It is global in scope and geographic in organization, with chapters on Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia, and North America. All the key topics are covered, including marriage and divorce, fornication and illegitimacy, clerical sexuality, same-…
Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World
Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (23 works) · Art (21 works) · History (20 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Political science (14 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · History (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (8 works)