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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| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
[2018]
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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 |