In this blog for “Premodern Gender”, Tyler Horton explains the tensions between gender, power and legitimate rule that early modern monarchs faced. In the early modern period, the strength of the monarchy was fundamentally built on ideas of divine right … Continue reading →

Ashleigh McNamara explores how maternity and poverty intersected in early modern English cases of infanticide.     In December of 1680, Margaret Adams was executed for the crime of infanticide at Tyburn Tree, London. According to the court records, she had concealed … Continue reading →

Matthew Firth begins the “Premodern Gender” series by discussing the history of England’s little known early royal women. The tenth century was a transformative period in English history. At the start of the century, what would come to be the … Continue reading →

Managing Co-Editor Paige Donaghy introduces a new blog series on gender in the medieval and early modern world. In 1620, an unknown English writer published a pamphlet in London with the following title: Hic Mulier, or The Man-Woman. The provocatively-titled work … Continue reading →