Chapter 2: Women in the Early Modern Era

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Chapter 2 Women in the Early Modern Era
Women Find New Roles in Businessand Religion
Persecution of Women as Witches
Ursula de Jesus and Sor Juana Ines dela Cruz
From Queen Elizabeth I to LadyHong
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Abstract

If there was one world-changing event that marked a break between the medieval period and the early modern period, it was the arrival of the great plague, known in Europe as the Black Death, in the middle of the fourteenth century. By the time a plague-stricken ship from the Black Sea reached Italy in 1348, the disease had already become a global pandemic. It had already caused millions of deaths in China and on the borders of Mongolia.

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