Janine Lanza

• Wayne State University

The definitive guide to Molière's world and his afterlife, this is an accessible contextual guide for academics, undergraduates and theatre professionals alike. Interdisciplinary and diverse in scope, each chapter offers a different perspective on the social, cultural, intellectual, and theatrical environment within which Molière operated, as well...

Planning for Death: Wills and Death-Related Property Arrangements in Europe, 1200–1600. Mia Korpiola and Anu Lahtinen, eds. Medieval Law and Its Practice 23. Leiden: Brill, 2018. x + 288 pp. $132. - Volume 73 Issue 1 - Janine Lanza

Beatrice Moring and Richard Wall, Widows in European economy and society, 1600–1920 (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2017). Pages xiii + 327. £75 hardback; £19.99 ebook. - Volume 34 Issue 2 - Janine Lanza

In Europe in the Early Modern period, women worked an enormous range of jobs and professions. From farmwives who helped plant and harvest crops to fishmongers who sold their wares in markets to guildswomen who engaged in skilled labor, as well as artists, scholars, midwives, doctors, prostitutes, and servants, women participated in every corner of...

Beatrice ZuccaMicheletto, Travail et propriété des femmes en temps de crise (Turin, XVIIIe siècle) (Mont-Saint-Aignan: Publications de l'Université de Rouen et du Havre, 2014). Pages 250. €23 paperback. - Volume 31 Issue 1 - JANINE LANZA

Morag Martin’s Selling Beauty describes how the French beauty empire, represented by firms such as L’Oréal, Lancôme and Estée Lauder, began with the efforts of small entrepreneurs and artisans who persuaded women to abandon their homemade cosmetics in favor of commercially made products. In the process of creating this domain of commercial beauty,...

TrouilleMary, Wife Abuse in Eighteenth-Century France, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2009. Pp. 392. $110.00 (978-0-729-40955-1). - Volume 28 Issue 3 - Janine Lanza

This article examines the experiences of widows of master craftsmen in eighteenth-century Paris to argue that widows were not critically limited in their social or economic roles by gender attitudes or the dynamic of the family economy. Using source material from the Minutier Central and the Châtelet series of the Archives Nationales de Paris, it a...

Cet article reevalue le role des veuves des maitres artisans parisiens du XVIIIe siecle, en analysant leur experience pratique quotidienne. La hierarchie de genre pas plus que le modele de l’economie familiale ne doivent nous conduire a sous-estimer leur role social et economique. Les fonds du Châtelet de Paris et les archives du Minutier central m...

Cet article réévalue le rôle des veuves des maîtres artisans parisiens du XVIIIe siècle, en analysant leur expérience pratique quotidienne. La hiérarchie de genre pas plus que le modèle de l'économie familiale ne doivent nous conduire à sous-estimer leur rôle social et économique. Les fonds du Châtelet de Paris et les archives du Minutier central m...

This article argues that Parisian widows, in taking over a guiding role in the household, upset normative gender roles. One result of that change was violence in the household between widows and their adult sons. In asserting their authority, widows found unlikely allies in the institutions of the State, legal structures and the guild system. Ultim...

Looking especially at widows of master craftsmen in early modern Paris, this study provides analysis of the social and cultural structures that shaped widows' lives as well as the experiences these women had in their day-to-day experience. It dramatically alters our understanding of gender; it also engages the historiographical issue of women's par...

On July 17, 1791, a crowd of Parisians gathered at the Champ de Mars, in the western part of the city, for the third time in as many days to make clear to the National Assembly their position on the question of the king's constitutional standing. They carried with them a petition that demanded, in unequivocal terms, the suspension of the king, pend...