Queen Bees, Queen Bess, and the Gender Politics of Butler's Feminine Monarchie

This article examines Charles Butler's beekeeping treatise The Feminine Monarchic (1609), the first to popularize the notion of the queen bee. Butler espouses firsthand scientific knowledge in the empirical tradition, yet he includes a bizarre story of plague-stricken bees that are miraculously...

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Main Author: Crachiolo, Elizabeth (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. [2018]
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2018, Volume: 49, Issue: 2, Pages: 323-338
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
KDB Roman Catholic Church
KDE Anglican Church
NBE Anthropology

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