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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of figures -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Thicker than Water: Evaluating Sibling Relations in the Early Modern Period -- Divine devotion -- 2 Making a Saint out of a Sibling -- 3 Recusant Sisters: English Catholic Women and the Bonds of Learning -- 4 Families, Convents, Music: The Power of Sisterhood -- 5 'Liebe Schwester …': Siblings, Convents, and the Reformation -- Ties that bind -- 6 Resisting Henri IV: Catherine de Bourbon and her Brother -- 7 Sister-Subject/Sister-Queen: Elizabeth I among her Siblings -- 8 Mary Sidney's Other Brothers -- Drawing the line -- 9 The Politics of Private Discourse: Familial Relations in Lady May Wroth's Urania -- 10 When the Mirror Lies: Sisterhood Reconsidered in Moderata Fonte's Thirteen Cantos of Floridoro -- 11 Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli: Musicians and Sororal Relations in Later Sixteenth-Century Venice -- 12 The Shame of Siblings in David and Bethsabe -- 13 Sibling Bonds and Bondage in (and beyond) Shakespeare's The Tempest -- Hand in hand -- 14 Playing the Game: Sisterly Relations in Sofonisba Anguissola's The Chess Game -- 15 'My Deare Sister': Sainted Sisterhood in Early Modern England -- 16 Sisterly Feelings in Cavendish and Brackley's Drama -- 17 'Thy Passionately Loving Sister and Faithfull Friend': Anne Dormer's Letters to her Sister Lady Trumbull -- 18 Siblings, Publications, and the Transmission of Memory: Johann Albert Hinrich and Elise Reimarus -- 19 Thicker than Blood: l'oltr'altra -- Index