The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (häftad)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
642
Utgivningsdatum
2013-08-22
Förlag
OUP Oxford
Medarbetare
Karras, Ruth Mazo
Illustrationer
7 black and white images
Dimensioner
241 x 182 x 42 mm
Vikt
1263 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780199582174

The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe

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Provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E.
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Gabriele Neher, History Today a monumental undertaking. It has to be stated straight away, though, that this book is also an intellectually monumental and much-needed project that brings together the latest scholarship and thinking on women and gender studies... Bennett and Karras are to be congratulated on establishing a handbook that brings together an exciting range of the most up-to-date research on gender.

Elisabeth Van Houts, English Historical Review Students will appreciate the Handbook for its helpful introductions, while more advanced readers and specialists in the field will find the new interpretations, provocative thinking and illustrative material inspiring. The volume ought to be on everyone's bookshelf or, in electronic form, bookmarked on one's computer. The editors should be congratulated on having gathered together the very best in current scholarship.

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<br>Judith M. Bennett is John R. Hubbard Professor of History, University of Southern California, Ruth Mazo Karras, Professor of History, University of Minnesota <br>Judith M. Bennett teaches women's history and medieval history at the University of Southern California. She is the author of a number of books and articles on medieval women and on the feminist practice of history, as well as a popular textbook on medieval European history. <br>Ruth Mazo Karras teaches history at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of five books and numerous articles in medieval history and the history of gender and sexuality. She is a co-editor of the journal Gender and History, General Editor of the Middle Ages Series at the University of Pennsylvania Press, and a former president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.<br>

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: Women, Gender, and Medieval Historians ; GENDERED THINKING ; 2. Gender and the Christian Traditions ; 3. Jewish Traditions about Women and Gender Roles: From Rabbinic Teachings to Medieval Practice ; 4. Women and Gender in Islamic Traditions ; 5. The Political Traditions of Female Rulership in Medieval Europe ; 6. Medicine and Natural Philosophy: Naturalistic Traditions ; LOOKING THROUGH THE LAW ; 7. Women and Laws in Early Medieval Europe ; 8. Conflicts over Gender in Civic Courts ; 9. Later Medieval Law in Community Context ; 10. Brideprice, Dowry, and Other Marital Assigns ; 11. Women and Gender in Canon Law ; DOMESTIC LIVES ; 12. Gendering Demographic Change in the Middle Ages ; 13. Genders and Material Culture ; 14. Gender and Daily Life in Jewish Communities ; 15. Carolingian Domesticities ; 16. Public and Private Space and Gender in Medieval Europe ; 17. Pious Domesticities ; LAND, LABOR, ECONOMY ; 18. Slavery ; 19. Urban Economies ; 20. Rural Economies ; 21. Aristocratic Economies ; BODIES, PLEASURES, DESIRES ; 22. Caring for Gendered Bodies ; 23. The Byzantine Body ; 24. Same-Sex Possibilities ; 25. Performing Courtliness ; ENGENDERING CHRISTIAN HOLINESS ; 26. Gender and the Initial Christianization of Northern Europe (to 1000 CE) ; 27. The Gender of the Religious: Wo/men and the Invention of Monasticism ; 28. Women and Reform in the Central Middle Ages ; 29. Devoted Holiness in the Lay World ; 30. Cults of Saints ; 31. Heresy and Gender in the Middle Ages ; 32. Cultures of Devotion ; TURNING POINTS AND PLACES ; 33. The Bride of Christ, the "Male Woman", and the Female Reader in Late Antiquity ; 34. Gender at the Medieval Millennium ; 35. Gender in the Transition to Merchant Capitalism ; 36. Toward the Witch Craze ; 37. Towards Feminism: Christine de Pizan, Female Advocacy, and Women's Textual Communities in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond