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As I have argued in this book, early modern women’s comprehension of food exchange was underpinned not only by Galenic physiological and providential ways of thinking, but also by Erasmian humanism, which supported the political inflection of temperance offered by women such as Mary Sidney Herbert, Elizabeth Clinton, Margaret Hoby, and Mary Wroth. In this epilogue, I suggest that the model of food exchange developed by these writers is distinctly Protestant in character, and communicates a religious and political perspective that disappears in the latter half of the seventeenth century.
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Aemilia Lanyer, ‘To the Lady Elizabeths Grace’, ‘To the Ladie Katherine Countesse of Suffolke’, ‘The Authors Dreame to the Ladie Marie, the Countesse Dowager of Pembrooke’, in The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, ed. Susanne Woods (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 11, line 9, p. 38, line 51, p. 30, line 197 (Lanyer 1993).
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Anna Trapnel, The Cry of a Stone, ed. Hilary Hinds (Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, 2000), pp. 4, 8, 20, 24 (Trapnel 2000).
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Trapnel, Cry of a Stone, p. 60
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Trapnel, Cry of a Stone, pp. 20, 24.
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Trapnel, Cry of a Stone, p. 25.
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Trapnel, Cry of a Stone, p. 72.
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Madeline Bassnett, ‘Restoring the Royal Household: Royalist Politics and the Commonwealth Recipe Book’, Early English Studies 2 (2009): 1–32 (Bassnett 2009).
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But see Laura Lunger Knoppers, who makes the compelling argument that The Court & Kitchin indirectly criticizes the scaling-back of hospitality at Charles II’s court, in Politicizing Domesticity from Henrietta Maria to Milton’s Eve (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 132–6 (Knoppers 2011).
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John Milton, Paradise Lost, ed. John Leonard (London and New York: Penguin, 2000), 5.398 (Milton 2000).
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Milton, Paradise Lost, 5.332, 344, 333, 336.
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Bassnett, M. (2016). Epilogue. In: Women, Food Exchange, and Governance in Early Modern England . Early Modern Literature in History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40868-2_7
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