Description: This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the telephone. It explores the changing ways that women used correspondence for self-expression and political mobilization over this period.
Brief description: David Garrioch is Emeritus Professor at Monash University and author of The Making of Revolutionary Paris (University of California Press, 2002). He recently edited The Republic of Skill. Artisan Mobility, Innovation, and the Circulation of Knowledge in Premodern Europe(Brill, 2022).