Widowhood In Medieval And Early Modern Europe

Author : Sandra Cavallo,Lyndan Warner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317882770

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Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Sandra Cavallo,Lyndan Warner Pdf

This new collection of essays brings together brand new research on widowhood in medieval and early modern Europe. The volume opens with an introductory chapter by the Editors which looks generally at the conditions and constructions of widowhood in this period. This is followed by a range of essays which illuminate different dimensions of widowhood across Europe - in England, Italy, France, Germany and Spain. A particular attraction of the volume is the attention given to widowers, and the comparisons made between the male and female experience of widowhood. It is an exciting reinterpretation of the subject which will do much to undo the traditional stereotype of the widow. Contributing to the volume are: Jodi Bilinkoff, Giulia Calvi, Sandra Cavallo, Isabelle Chabot, Julia Crick, Amy Erikson, Dagmar Freist, Elizabeth Foyster, Margaret Pelling, Pamela Sharpe,Tim Stretton, Barbara Todd, and Lyndan Warner.

Author : Sandra Cavallo,Lyndan Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:1263746328

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Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Sandra Cavallo,Lyndan Warner Pdf

Author : Allison Levy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351872980

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Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe by Allison Levy Pdf

Whereas recent studies of early modern widowhood by social, economic and cultural historians have called attention to the often ambiguous, yet also often empowering, experience and position of widows within society, Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe is the first book to consider the distinct and important relationship between ritual and representation. The fifteen new interdisciplinary essays assembled here read widowhood as a catalyst for the production of a significant body of visual material-representations of, for and by widows, whether through traditional media, such as painting, sculpture and architecture, or through the so-called 'minor arts,' including popular print culture, medals, religious and secular furnishings and ornament, costume and gift objects, in early modern Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Arranged thematically, this unique collection allows the reader to recognize and appreciate the complexity and contradiction, iconicity and mutability, and timelessness and timeliness of widowhood and representation.

Author : Stephanie Fink De Backer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004191709

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Widowhood in Early Modern Spain by Stephanie Fink De Backer Pdf

This study of Castilian widows, based on extensive analysis of literary and archival sources, provides insight into the complex mechanisms lying behind the formulation of gender boundaries and the pragmatic politics of everyday life in the early modern world.

Author : Louise Mirrer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000135397

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Upon My Husband's Death by Louise Mirrer Pdf

An exploration of widowhood in medieval Europe

Author : Katherine Clark Walter
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813230191

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The Profession of Widowhood by Katherine Clark Walter Pdf

The Profession of Widowhood explores how the idea of ‘true’ widowhood was central to pre-modern ideas concerning marriage and of female identity more generally. The medieval figure of the Christian vere vidua or “good” widow evolved from and reinforced ancient social and religious sensibilities of chastity, loyalty and grief as gendered ‘work.’ The ideal widow was a virtuous woman who mourned her dead husband in chastity, solitude, and most importantly, in perpetuity, marking her as “a widow indeed” (1 Tim 5:5). The widow who failed to display adequate grief fulfilled the stereotype of the ‘merry widow’ who forgot her departed spouse and abused her sexual and social freedom. Stereotypes of widows ‘good’ and ‘bad’ served highly-charged ideological functions in pre-modern culture, and have remained durable even in modern times, even as Western secular society now focuses more on a woman’s recovery from grief and possible re-coupling than the expectation that she remain forever widowed. The widow represented not only the powerful bond created by love and marriage, but also embodied the conventions of grief that ordered the response when those bonds were broken by premature death. This notion of the widow as both a passive memorial to her husband and as an active ‘rememberer’ was rooted in ancient traditions, and appropriated by early Christian and medieval authors who used “good” widowhood to describe the varieties of female celibacy and to define the social and gender order. A tradition of widowhood characterized by chastity, solitude, and permanent bereavement affirmed both the sexual mores and political agenda of the medieval Church. Medieval widows—both holy women recognized as saints and ‘ordinary women’ in medieval daily life—recognized this tradition of professed chastity in widowhood not only as a valuable strategy for avoiding remarriage and protecting their independence, but as a state with inherent dignity that afforded opportunities for spiritual development in this world and eternal merit in the next.

Author : Lyndan Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Stepfamilies
ISBN : 0815382146

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Stepfamilies in Europe, 1400-1800 by Lyndan Warner Pdf

Stepfamilies in Europe 1400 to 1800 addresses a significant gap in literature on the history of the family and provides an in-depth study into the complex family structures created upon remarriage and the impact that these new relationships had on the life course and life cycle of the family across a range of European countries.

Author : Christine Meek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Renaissance
ISBN : UCSC:32106016212828

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Women in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe by Christine Meek Pdf

Author : Sue Sheridan Walker
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : England
ISBN : 0472104152

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Wife and Widow in Medieval England by Sue Sheridan Walker Pdf

Examines the role of women in medieval law and society

Author : Professor Janine M Lanza
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409479918

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From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris by Professor Janine M Lanza Pdf

Looking especially at widows of master craftsmen in early modern Paris, this study provides analysis of the social and cultural structures that shaped widows' lives as well as their day-to-day experiences. Janine Lanza examines widows in early modern Paris at every social and economic level, beginning with the late sixteenth century when changes in royal law curtailed the movement of property within families up to the time of the French Revolution. The glimpses she gives us of widows running businesses, debating remarriage, and negotiating marriage contracts offer precious insights into the daily lives of women in this period. Lanza shows that understanding widows dramatically alters our understanding of gender, not only in terms of how it was lived in this period but also how historians can use this idea as a category of analysis. Her study also engages the historiographical issue of business and entrepreneurship, particularly women's participation in the world of work; and explicitly examines the place of the law in the lived experience of the early modern period. How did widowed women use their newly acquired legal emancipation? How did they handle their emotional loss? How did their roles in their families and their communities change? How did they remain financially solvent without a man in the house? How did they make decisions that had always been made by the men around them? These questions all touch upon the experience of widows and on the ways women related to prevalent structures and ideologies in this society. Lanza's study of these women, the ways they were represented and how they experienced their widowhood, challenges many historical assumptions about women and their roles with respect to the law, the family, and economic activity.

Author : Barbara J. Todd,Kim Kippen,Lori Woods
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0772720797

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Worth and Repute by Barbara J. Todd,Kim Kippen,Lori Woods Pdf

"This collection of essays shows the remarkable strides the study of gender has made in the decades since Barbara Todd helped reshape the field through her publications and teaching. In Worth and Repute: Valuing Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, gender conventions are examined in regard to men as well as women. Shaping and constraining behaviour as well as ways of thinking and feeling, gender conventions are used and manipulated so that women and men can manage their lives, make do as best they can, or advance. If gender conventions are often accepted, they are also on occasion defied, challenged, or simply ignored. The articles here give vivid illustration to these different possibilities and their precise historical contexts."--Publisher's website.

Author : Marianna Muravyeva,Raisa Maria Toivo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415537230

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Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Marianna Muravyeva,Raisa Maria Toivo Pdf

This book attempts to challenge the canonical gender concept while trying to specify what gender was in the medieval and early modern world. It tests, verifies, and challenges the methodology and use the concept(s) of gender specifically applicable to the period of great change and transition. The volume contains theoretical discussion supplemented by case studies of specific practices such as mysticism, witchcraft, crime, and sexual behavior.

Author : Lisa Hopkins,Aidan Norrie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Beatrix, Ungarn, Königin
ISBN : 9462987505

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Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe by Lisa Hopkins,Aidan Norrie Pdf

This book examines the lives of women whose gender impeded the exercise of their personal, political, and religious agency, especially when they were expected to occupy the spheres society believed their gender should.

Author : Jane Couchman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317041054

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe by Jane Couchman Pdf

Over the past three decades scholars have transformed the study of women and gender in early modern Europe. This Ashgate Research Companion presents an authoritative review of the current research on women and gender in early modern Europe from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The authors examine women’s lives, ideologies of gender, and the differences between ideology and reality through the recent research across many disciplines, including history, literary studies, art history, musicology, history of science and medicine, and religious studies. The book is intended as a resource for scholars and students of Europe in the early modern period, for those who are just beginning to explore these issues and this time period, as well as for scholars learning about aspects of the field in which they are not yet an expert. The companion offers not only a comprehensive examination of the current research on women in early modern Europe, but will act as a spark for new research in the field.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004360761

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Royal and Elite Households in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Anonim Pdf

The authors bring fresh approaches to the subject of royal and noble households in medieval and early modern Europe with a focus on the nuclear and extended royal family, their household attendants, noblemen and noblewomen as courtiers, and physicians.