Harris's work is comprehensive in every respect, and details virtually every possible experience that aristocratic women might have had in the late Yorkist and early Tudor periods. She is especially adept at making these women appear, as they were, human, with real-life joys, sorrows, and challenges. It is this dimension that makes Harris's work especially distinctive."--Sixteenth Century Journal
..".a magisterial work..."English Aristocratic Women is now the standard work on the subject, and all scholars interested in late medieval and early modern gender and elite cultures will benefit from Harris's careful research and bold conceptualizations."--Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University
"an urbane and absorbing read ... demonstrates Harris's command of her rich materials and her careful analysis of them."-- Albion
"We should all welcome Professor Harris's fine study of English aristocratic women of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. At every stage the book has interesting and fresh things to say. She gets closer than anybody else ever will to painting these women as recognizable and even likable people."--English Historical Review
"Prodigiously researched and wonderfully detailed study."-- Renaissance Quarterly
"for aristocratic women during one century of late-medieval English history - she paints a composite portrait of glorious, dizzying complexity . . . likely to remain the definitive study on the subject for a long while."-- Speculum
"In its extraordinary archival grounding as well as its lucid exposition of the characteristics of this intersection of rank and gender, this book is indispensible reading for social historians of all stripes."--Choice
Harris's work is comprehensive in every respect, and details virtually every possible experience that aristocratic women might have had in the late Yorkist and early Tudor periods. She is especially adept at making these women appear, as they were, human, with real-life joys, sorrows, and challenges. It is this dimension that makes Harris's work especially distinctive."--Sixteenth Century Journal
.,."a magisterial work..."English Aristocratic Women is now the standard work on the subject, and all scholars interested in late medieval and early modern gender and elite cultures will benefit from Harris's careful research and bold conceptualizations."--Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University
"an urbane and absorbing read ... demonstrates Harris's command of her rich materials and her careful analysis of them."-- Albion
"We should all welcome Professor Harris's fine study of English aristocratic women of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. At every stage the book has interesting and fresh things to say. She gets closer than anybody else ever will to painting these women as recognizable and even likable people."--English Historical Review
"Prodigiously researched and wonderfully detailed study."-- Renaissance Quarterly
"for aristocratic women during one century of late-medieval English history - she paints a composite portrait of glorious, dizzying complexity . . . likely to remain the definitive study on the subject for a long while."-- Speculum
"In its extraordinary archival grounding as well as its lucid exposition of the characteristics of this intersection of rank and gender, this book is indispensible reading for social historians of allstripes."--Choice
Harris's work is comprehensive in every respect, and details virtually every possible experience that aristocratic women might have had in the late Yorkist and early Tudor periods. She is especially adept at making these women appear, as they were, human, with real-life joys, sorrows, and
challenges. It is this dimension that makes Harris's work especially distinctive."--Sixteenth Century Journal
, .."a magisterial work..."English Aristocratic Women is now the standard work on the subject, and all scholars interested in late medieval and early modern gender and elite cultures will benefit from Harris's careful research and bold conceptualizations."--Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University
"an urbane and absorbing read ... demonstrates Harris's command of her rich materials and her careful analysis of them."-- Albion
"We should all welcome Professor Harris's fine study of English aristocratic women of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. At every stage the book has interesting and fresh things to say. She gets closer than anybody else ever will to painting these women as recognizable and even
likable people."--English Historical Review
"Prodigiously researched and wonderfully detailed study."-- Renaissance Quarterly
"for aristocratic women during one century of late-medieval English history - she paints a composite portrait of glorious, dizzying complexity . . . likely to remain the definitive study on the subject for a long while."-- Speculum
"In its extraordinary archival grounding as well as its lucid exposition of the characteristics of this intersection of rank and gender, this book isindispensible reading for social historians of all stripes."--Choice
Harris's work is comprehensive in every respect, and details virtually every possible experience that aristocratic women might have had in the late Yorkist and early Tudor periods. She is especially adept at making these women appear, as they were, human, with real-life joys, sorrows, and
challenges. It is this dimension that makes Harris's work especially distinctive."--Sixteenth Century Journal
.,."a magisterial work..."English Aristocratic Women is now the standard work on the subject, and all scholars interested in late medieval and early modern gender and elite cultures will benefit from Harris's careful research and bold conceptualizations."--Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University
"an urbane and absorbing read ... demonstrates Harris's command of her rich materials and her careful analysis of them."-- Albion
"We should all welcome Professor Harris's fine study of English aristocratic women of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. At every stage the book has interesting and fresh things to say. She gets closer than anybody else ever will to painting these women as recognizable and even
likable people."--English Historical Review
"Prodigiously researched and wonderfully detailed study."-- Renaissance Quarterly
"for aristocratic women during one century of late-medieval English history - she paints a composite portrait of glorious, dizzying complexity . . . likely to remain the definitive study on the subject for a long while."-- Speculum
"In its extraordinary archival grounding as well as its lucid exposition of the characteristics of this intersection of rank and gender, this book is indispensible reading for social historians of allstripes."--Choice