The Oxford handbook of women and gender in medieval Europe

The Oxford handbook of women and gender in medieval Europe / edited by Judith M. Bennett and Ruth Mazo Karras.

"The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E. The essays collected in this volume speak to interpretative challenges common to all fields of women'...

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Other Authors: Bennett, Judith M. (Editor), Karras, Ruth Mazo, 1957- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford handbooks.
Subjects:
500-1500
Women > Europe > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Sex role > Europe > History.
Social history > Medieval, 500-1500.
Sex role
Social history > Medieval
Women > Middle Ages
Geschlechterrolle
Frau
Frau.
Geschlechterrolle.
Vrouwen.
Middeleeuwen.
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Social Sciences.
Gender Studies & Sexuality.
Europe
Europa
Europa.
Europe.
History
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Table of 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.

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