Katrin Keller is Director of the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria.

1. Introduction

The Sixteenth Century: Preachers, Nuns, and Dynastic Women

2. Caritas Pirckheimer (1467-1532): The Learned Nun

3. Katharina Zell (1497/98-1562): A Woman who Preached

4. Maria of Hungary (1505-1558): On Behalf of the Dynasty

5. Elisabeth of Brunswick-Calenberg (1510-1558): A Princess as Reformer

6. Anna of Saxony (1532-1585): Of Princely Domains and Good Medicines

7. Archduchess Maria of Inner Austria (1551-1608): How a Mother Shapes her Children

The Seventeenth Century: Princesses, Businesswomen, and Artists

8. Polyxena of Lobkowicz (1566-1642): Between Bohemia and Spain

9. Anna of Brandenburg (1576-1625): How Prussia came to Brandenburg

10. Maria Magdalena Haidenbucher (1576-1650): Abbess in Troubled Times

11. Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633-1694): The Poet in Exile

12. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717): Science and Painting

13. Glikl bas Judah Leib (1647?-1724): The Experiences of a Jewish Businesswoman

14. Empress Eleonora Magdalena (1655-1720): How to Care for Your Siblings

15. Maria Aurora von Königsmarck (1662-1728): The Mistress in the Imperial Abbey

The Eighteenth Century: Scientists, Writers, and Social Movers

16. Erdmuthe Benigna of Reuß-Ebersdorf (1670-1732): Women and the Pietist Movement

17. Maria Margaretha Kirch (1670-1720): The Arduous Journey to the Sciences

18. Luise Adelgunde Gottsched (1713-1762): More than the Woman at his Side

19. Dorothea Erxleben (1715-1762): A Medical Doctor Prevails

20. Empress Maria Theresa (1717-1780): The Heiress

21. Anna Dorothea Therbusch (1721-1782): From Innkeeper to Court Painter

22. Anna Barbara Gignoux (1725-1796): How to Defend a Calico Manufactory

23. Sophie von La Roche (1730-1807): A Life as a Female Author

24. Amalie Gallitzin (1748-1806): Philosophy, Religion, and Conviviality

25. Maria Theresia Paradis (1759-1824): The Blind Pianist

26.Henriette Herz (1764-1847): A Salon in Berlin