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Author : Robert Edwards,Vickie L. Ziegler
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0851153801
Exploration of differences between women: good women who were absorbed into society, and those whose social role condemned them to its fringes.
Author : Mavis E. Mate
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0521587336
Written primarily for undergraduates, this book weighs the evidence for and against the various theories relating to the position of women at different time periods. Professor Mate examines the major issues deciding the position of women in medieval English society, asking questions such as, did women enjoy a rough equality in the Anglo-Saxon period that they subsequently lost? Did queens at certain periods exercise real political clout or was their power limited to questions of patronage? Did women's participation in the economy grant them considerable independence and allow them to postpone or delay marriage? Professor Mate also demonstrates that class, as well as gender, was very important in determining age at marriage and opportunities for power and influence. Although some women at certain times did make short-term gains, Professor Mate challenges the dominant view that major transformations in women's position occurred in the century after the Black Death.
Author : T. Earenfight
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230106017
The twelve essays in Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe re-examine the vexing issue of women, money, wealth, and power from distinctive perspectives - literature, history, architectural history - using new archival sources. The contributors examine how money and changing attitudes toward wealth affected power relations between women and men of all ranks, especially the patriarchal social forces that constrained the range of women s economic choices. Employing theories on gender, culture, and power, this volume reveals wealth as both the motive force in gender relations and a precise indicator of other, more subtle, forms of power and influence mediated by gender.
Author : Helen Jewell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350307100
The period 1200-1550 opened in a time of population expansion but went on to suffer the demographically cataclysmic effects of the plague, beginning with the Black Death of 1347-51. The period dawned with a confident papacy and the Albigensian crusade against heretics and ended with the Catholic church torn apart by the Protestant Reformation. Huge challenges were affecting society in various ways, but they did not always affect men and women in the same ways. Helen M. Jewell provides a lively survey of western European women's activities and experiences during this timeframe. The core chapters investigate: - The function of women in the countryside and towns - The role of women in the ruling and landholding classes - Women within the context of religion This practical centre of the book is embedded in an analysis of the gender theories inherited from the earlier Middle Ages which continued to underpin laws which restricted women's activity, an education system which offered them inferior institutional provision, and a church which denied them ministry. Three individuals who vastly exceeded these expectations, crashing through the 'glass ceilings' of their day, are brought together in a fascinating final chapter. Combining a historiographical survey of trends over the last thirty years with more recent scholarship, this is as indispensable introduction for anyone with an interest in women's history from the late Medieval period through to the Reformation.
Author : Margaret Schaus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415969444
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Author : Margaret Schaus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2033 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351681582
First published in 2006, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe examines the daily reality of medieval women from all walks of life in Europe between 450 CE and 1500 CE. This reference work provides a comprehensive understanding of many aspects of medieval women and gender, such as art, economics, law, literature, sexuality, politics, philosophy and religion, as well as the daily lives of ordinary women. Masculinity in the middle ages is also addressed to provide important context for understanding women's roles. Additional up-to-date bibliographies have been included for the 2016 reprint. Written by renowned international scholars and easily accessible in an A-to-Z format, students, researchers, and scholars will find this outstanding reference work to be a valuable resource on women in Medieval Europe.
Author : Caroline Dunn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781107017009
The first comprehensive exploration of women's multifaceted experiences of forced and consensual ravishment in medieval England.
Author : Beth Allison Barr
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1843833735
A close examination of religious texts illuminates the way in which parish priests dealt with their female parishioners in the middle ages.
Author : Barbara A. Hanawalt
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780195109498
In eleven interrelated essays, this text explores the roles that community, family and society played in maintaining social control in medieval England. The essays focus on gender, criminal behaviour, law enforcement, and much more.
Author : Jennifer Lawler
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476601113
Most people have heard of Lady Godiva and her horseback tax protest in the 11th century and Joan of Arc who in the 15th century fought against the English for the French gaining sainthood in 1920. Many know of Eleanor of Aquataine, 12th century Queen of France and England, and powerful manipulator and protector of kings. Some know of Hildegarde and Beatrice and Blanche and Clare. There are many famous women of the Middle Ages whose lives and leadership brought important changes to history. This encyclopedia contains several hundred entries on the culture, history and circumstances of women in the Middle Ages, from the years 500 to 1500 C.E. The geographical scope of this work is wide, with entries on women from England, France, Germany, Japan, and other nations around the world. There are entries on queens, empresses, and other women in positions of leadership as well as entries on topics such as work, marriage and family, households, employment, religion, and various other aspects of women’s lives in the Middle Ages. Genealogies of queens and empresses accompany the text in an appendix.
Author : Ruth Evans,Sarah Salih,Anke Bernau
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802086373
The variety of subjects and disciplines represented here testify both to the elusiveness of virginity and to its lasting appeal and importance. Medieval Virginities shows how virginity's inherent ambiguity highlights the problems, contradictions and discontinuities lurking within medieval ideologies.
Author : Marjorie Keniston McIntosh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521846161
This is an important study of English women's participation in the market economy from 1300 to 1620.
Author : John Aberth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317496090
Contesting the Middle Ages is a thorough exploration of recent arguments surrounding nine hotly debated topics: the decline and fall of Rome, the Viking invasions, the Crusades, the persecution of minorities, sexuality in the Middle Ages, women within medieval society, intellectual and environmental history, the Black Death, and, lastly, the waning of the Middle Ages. The historiography of the Middle Ages, a term in itself controversial amongst medieval historians, has been continuously debated and rewritten for centuries. In each chapter, John Aberth sets out key historiographical debates in an engaging and informative way, encouraging students to consider the process of writing about history and prompting them to ask questions even of already thoroughly debated subjects, such as why the Roman Empire fell, or what significance the Black Death had both in the late Middle Ages and beyond. Sparking discussion and inspiring examination of the past and its ongoing significance in modern life, Contesting the Middle Ages is essential reading for students of medieval history and historiography.
Author : Marie A. Kelleher
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812205343
By the end of the Middle Ages, the ius commune—the combination of canon and Roman law—had formed the basis for all law in continental Europe, along with its patriarchal system of categorizing women. Throughout medieval Europe, women regularly found themselves in court, suing or being sued, defending themselves against criminal accusations, or prosecuting others for crimes committed against them or their families. Yet choosing to litigate entailed accepting the conceptual vocabulary of the learned law, thereby reinforcing the very legal and social notions that often subordinated them. In The Measure of Woman Marie A. Kelleher explores the complex relationship between women and legal culture in Spain's Crown of Aragon during the late medieval period. Aragonese courts measured women according to three factors: their status in relation to men, their relative sexual respectability, and their conformity to ideas about the female sex as a whole. Yet in spite of this situation, Kelleher argues, women were able to play a crucial role in shaping their own legal identities while working within the parameters of the written law. The Measure of Woman reveals that women were not passive recipients—or even victims—of the legal system. Rather, medieval women actively used the conceptual vocabulary of the law, engaging with patriarchal legal assumptions as part of their litigation strategies. In the process, they played an important role in the formation of a gendered legal culture that would shape the lives of women throughout Western Europe and beyond for centuries to come.
Author : L. Martin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403913937
This book examines drinking and attitudes to alcohol consumption in late medieval and early modern England, France, and Italy, especially as they related to sexual and violent behavior and to gender relations. According to widespread beliefs, the consumption of alcohol led to increased sexual activity among both men and women, and it also led to disorderly conduct among women and violent conduct among men. Dr Lynn shows how alcohol was a fundamental part of the diets of most people, including women, resulting in daily drinking of large amounts of ale, beer, or wine. This study offers an intimate insight into both the altered states induced by alcohol, and, by opposition, into normal relations in family, community, and society.
