CONTRIBUTI / 4 / Martina Guzzetti This paper considers the manifold strategies used by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century midwives to actively take part both in the circulation of notions and evidence about pregnancy,...
CONTRIBUTI / 5 / Sofia Beatriz Calvente In the early modern period the chain of being thesis was used by naturalists and philosophers to justify female subordination. My aim is to establish...
CONTRIBUTI / 6 / Chiara Maciocci Caroline von Wolzogen and the Kleinöffentlichkeit: Authoritative strategies of existence between anonymity and relationality This contribution aims to account for the role of the writer Caroline...
CONTRIBUTI / 7 / Vicki Mistacco In her translations of the English travel writer John Carr, Voyage en Hollande and L’Etranger en Irlande, Louise de Keralio (1756-1822) turns a humble, “feminine” activity...
CONTRIBUTI / 1 / Matteo Sperandini Nulla succurri providentia potest. ‘Eloise’s critique of the concept of divine providence in Letter iv of the Epistolary to Abelard In the conclusion of the Historia...
