Reposted by Nicole Greenspan
Delighted that this is finally public! So pleased to be working with @erikagaffney.bsky.social again & @dgb-mem.bsky.social ... Calling all Salts - do send us proposals for monographs & edited collections ⚓️⚓️⚓️
Nicole Greenspan
@nicolegreenspan.bsky.social
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Historian of Early Modern Britain. Studied at Toronto, Professor at Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia. Works on news and media, and also royalist exiles.
![Screenshot of the title and abstract for: 'A cordwainer’s wife in high politics: a microhistory of Mrs Caute'
Abstract: This article introduces a hitherto unstudied pair of seventeenth-century texts, by the cordwainer’s wife Sarah Caute, which exercised political influence at the highest levels. Caute relates how in 1683–4, whilst in London, she experienced a sudden desire for herself and her six-year-old son Mathew to be baptised by Thomas Ken (1637–1711), who was then the prebend of Winchester (he would soon, in January 1685, be consecrated Bishop of Bath and Wells). Since he was a year old, Caute narrates, Mathew did not speak or walk and suffered ‘violent fitt[s]’ which ‘took him of his leges and his teeth fell out of his head at the roots…till they were all out’. Caute’s story reached the ears of Charles II and James II; thereby, she participated personally and in absentia in elite negotiations of confessional identity. Caute’s texts challenge the notion that non-elite women’s writing is scarce and of limited political interest.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:44em43qq5kem43otrh3vejy5/bafkreiaaohhvegu3drvayykz5zhcwjwuckc54vtc5c6ozid7zh5kfrozsm)
