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Women -- Europe -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500.
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Sex role -- Europe -- History.
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Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500.
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Descript |
xiv, 626 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Contents |
Women, gender, and medieval historians / Judith M. Bennett, Ruth Mazo Karras -- Pt.I Gendered thinking : Gender and the Christian traditions / Dyan Elliott -- Jewish traditions about women and gender roles : from rabbinic teachings to medieval practice / Judith R. Baskin -- Women and gender in Islamic traditions / Jonathan P. Berkey -- The political traditions of female rulership in medieval Europe / Amalie Fössel -- Medicine and natural philosophy : naturalistic traditions / Katharine Park -- Pt.II Looking through the law : Women and laws in early medieval Europe / Janet L. Nelson, Alice Rio -- Conflicts over gender in civic courts / Carol Lansing -- Later medieval law in community context / Marie A. Kelleher -- Brideprice, dowry, and other marital assigns / Susan Mosher Stuard -- Women and gender in canon law / Sara McDougall -- Pt.III Domestic lives : Gendering demographic change in the middle ages / Maryanne Kowaleski -- Genders and material culture / Katherine L. French -- Gender and daily life in Jewish communities / Elisheva Baumgarten -- Carolingian domesticities / Rachel Stone -- Public and private space and gender in medieval Europe / Sarah Rees Jones -- Pious domesticities / Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane -- Pt.IV Land, labor, economy : Slavery / Sally McKee -- Urban economies / Kathryn Reyerson -- Rural economies / Jane Whittle -- Aristocratic economies : women and family / Joanna H. Drell -- Pt.V Bodies, pleasures, desires : Caring for gendered bodies / Monica H. Green -- The Byzantine body / Kathryn M. Ringrose -- Same-sex possibilities / Helmut Puff -- Performing courtliness / E. Jane Burns -- Pt.VI Engendering Christian holiness : Gender and the initial Christianization of northern Europe (to 1000 CE) / Lisa M. Bitel -- The gender of the religious : wo/men and the invention of monasticism / Albrecht Diem -- Women and reform in the central middle ages / Fiona J. Griffiths -- Devoted holiness in the lay world / Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker -- Cults of saints / Miri Rubin -- Heresy and gender in the middle ages / John H. Arnold -- Cultures of devotion / Kathleen Ashley -- Pt.VII Turning points and places : The bride of Christ, the "male woman," and the female reader in late antiquity / Kate Cooper -- Gender and the medieval millennium / Constance H. Berman -- Gender in the transition to merchant capitalism / Martha C. Howell -- Toward the witch craze / Laura Stokes -- Towards feminism : Christine de Pizan, female advocacy, and women's textual communities in the late middle ages and beyond / Roberta L. Krueger. |
Alt author |
Bennett, Judith M.
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Karras, Ruth Mazo, 1957-
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ISBN |
9780199582174 (hbk.) |
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0199582173 (hbk.) |
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