Merry Wiesner-Hanks

This edition includes more help with historical thinking skills, an expanded primary source program in print and online, and the best and latest scholarship throughout. Meer

Examining women’s agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women’s Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. Meer

Research on women and gender in the early modern world is booming: the field has a scholarly society that is now more than twenty years old; a specialized annual journal; a tri-annual conference; and a book series. Meer

The early modern period witnessed sometimes startling, sometimes subtle transformations in the religious and intellectual life of peoples across the globe. Meer