1990/06/01 by Barbara J. Harris
Arts and Humanities · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Reformation and Early Modern Christianity #Historical Studies of British Isles #Historical Economic and Social Studies
paper · doi:10.1017/s0018246x00013327
Political historians working on the early Tudor period have traditionally concentrated on institutions – monarchy, council, parliament, courts, and administrative bodies – that excluded women. The very definition of politics underlying the dominant historiography has thus made it seem both natural and inevitable to write history as if the world of high politics, the world that really counted, were exclusively male.