Pawns or Players? Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women.(Book Review)

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Pawns or Players? Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women. Edited by Christine Meek and Catherine Lawless. Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women 3. Dublin: Four Courts, 2003. 224 pp. $30.00 paper.

This rich volume includes eleven essays, selected papers from the conferences at Trinity College in 1999, "Pawns or Players," and 2001, "Women at Home, Women Abroad." The recent conferences follow on the work of two previous conferences and volumes: The Fragility of Her Sex: Medieval Irish Women in Their European Context, ed. C. E. Meek and M. K. Simms (Dublin: Four Courts, ...

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