The extraordinary number of letters written by Renaissance women (over 10,000 exist from England alone) reveals the often subtle ways women of the period influenced their world. But a surprising number of women required no subtlety at all for their presence to be felt, taking their place beside men at court and making invaluable contributions to science, medicine, philosophy, art, music, and more.
Diana Robin is professor emerita of classics at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. She is currently a scholar in residence at the Newberry Library. Anne R. Larsen is professor of French at Hope College, Holland, MI. Carole Levin is Willa Cather professor of history at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
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