Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration : Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800

List of Illustrations.- Acknowledgements and Note on the Text.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction; Jacqueline Broad, Karen Green.- 1. Political Thought as Improvisation: Female Regency and Mariology in Late Medieval French Thought; Earl Jeffrey Richards.- 2. Phronesis Feminised: Prudence from Christine de Pizan to Elizabeth I; Karen Green.- 3. Catherine d''Amboise''s Livre des Prudents et Imprudents: Negotiating Space for Female Voices in Political Discourse; Catherine M. Müller.- 4. "Machiavelli in Skirts" Isabella d''Este and Politics; Carolyn James.- 5. Liberty and the Right of Resistance: Women''s Political Writings of the English Civil War Era; Jacqueline Broad.- 6. Margaret Cavendish and the False Universal; Hilda L. Smith.- 7. The Social and Political Thought of Damaris Cudworth Masham; Regan Penaluna.- 8. "Our Religion and Liberties": Mary Astell''s Christian Political Polemics; Michal Michelson.- 9. Virtue, God, and Stoicism in the Thought of Elizabeth Carter and Catharine Macaulay; Sarah Hutton.- 10. Catharine Macaulay and Mary Wollstonecraft on the Will; Martina Reuter.- 11. Keeping Ahead of the English? A Defence of Jews by Cornélie Wouters, Baroness of Vasse (1790); Carrie F. Klaus.- Bibliography.- Index.