Women, Food Exchange, and Governance in Early Modern England; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction; The Politics of Food Exchange; Women's Food, Women's Governance; Notes; 2 Providential Gifts and Agricultural Plenty: The Psalmes of Mary Sidney Herbert; Psalm Discourse and Protestant Militancy; Providential Nourishment; The Psalmes and the English Nation; Agriculture and National Ethics; God's Husbandry; Royal Husbandry; Agricultural Production and Good Governance; Agricultural Prosperity and Militant War; Notes.

3 The Milk of Wholesome Government: Elizabeth Clinton's The Covntesse of Lincolnes NvrseriePuritanism and the Clintons; Nursing and Governance; Nursing and Spiritual Authority; Nursing: A Local Food; Nursing and Secessionist Renewal; Notes; 4 Prayerful Dining: The Diary of Margaret Hoby; A Regional Governance; Dining and Self-Governance; Dining and Spiritual Practice; Dining and Household Governance; Dining, Hospitality, and Regional Authority; Dining, Fasting, and National Public Health; Notes; 5 The Quintessence of Good Governance: Humanist Hospitality in Mary Wroth's Urania.

Court, Country, and Hospitality'Brittany' and the Ethics of Hospitality; Food and Excess at James's Court; Luxurious Hospitality; Restorative Hospitality; Tacitean Hospitality; Advisory Hospitality; Notes; 6 Shaping the Body Politic: Mobile Food and Transnational Exchange in Urania; Women and Transnationalism; Food and the Body Politic; Food Gifts and Mobile Fruit; Gifts of Fruit and Political Metamorphosis; The Marriage Feast and Political Consolidation; Hospitality and Political Usurpation; Notes; 7 Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index.