Contents
Essays
- Pressure to Publish: Laura Terracina and her Editors
—Amelia Papworth
- Isabel de Borbón and the Governance of the Spanish Monarchy
—Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez
- The Bizarre Muse: The Literary Persona of Margherita Costa
—Jessica Goethals
- “Equally Charming, Equally Too Great”: Female Rivalry, Politics, and Opera in Early Eighteenth-Century London
—Alison DeSimone
Forum: Play, Games, and Performance
- The Game of Politics: Catherine de’ Medici and Chess
—Susan Broomhall
- “We made a blame game of your game”: Jean Desmarets, the Jeu des Reynes Renommées, and the Dame des Reynes
—Naomi Lebens
- Parlor Games, Spatial Strategy, and The Two Angry Women of Abington
—Emma Katherine Atwood
- Playing Cards with God: The Visions of the Portuguese Nun, Mariana de Purificação (1623–95)
—Joana Serrado
- Jeu de dames: A Game for Women in Renaissance Europe
—Alex de Voogt and Wim van Mourik
- Hazarding for Marriage: John Blagrave’s Lottery for Maidservants
—Richelle Munkhoff
- Gyno Ludens: Small Work and Play in Everyday Archives
—Natasha Korda
- Was the Long Eighteenth Century a Golden Age for Women in Sport?: The Cases of Mme Bunel and Alicia Thornton
—Peter Radford