Women, Food Exchange, and Governance in Early Modern England

1. Introduction
Madeline Bassnett

2. Providential Gifts and Agricultural Plenty: The Psalmes of Mary Sidney Herbert
Madeline Bassnett

3. The Milk of Wholesome Government: Elizabeth Clinton’s The Covntesse of Lincolnes Nvrserie

Madeline Bassnett

4. Prayerful Dining: The Diary of Margaret Hoby
Madeline Bassnett

5. The Quintessence of Good Governance: Humanist Hospitality in Mary Wroth’s Urania

Madeline Bassnett

6. Shaping the Body Politic: Mobile Food and Transnational Exchange in Urania

Madeline Bassnett

7. Epilogue
Madeline Bassnett

Nyckelord: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature, History of Britain and Ireland