Heresy and gender in the Middle Ages / John H. Arnold -- Cultures of devotion / Kathleen Ashley -- Turning points and places. The bride of Christ, the "male woman," and the female reader in late antiquity / Kate Cooper -- Gender at 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. 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 -- Land, labor, economy. Slavery / Sally McKee -- Urban economics / Kathryn Reyerson -- Rural economies / Jane Whittle -- Aristocratic economies : women and family / Joanna H. Drell -- 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 -- 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 -- Turning points and places. The bride of Christ, the "male woman," and the female reader in late antiquity / Kate Cooper -- Gender at 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.
Summary:
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's and gender history - that is, how best to uncover the experiences of ordinary people from archives formed mainly by and about elite males, and how to combine social histories of lived experiences with cultural histories of gendered discourses and identities. The collection focuses on Western Europe in the Middle Ages but offers some consideration of medieval Islam and Byzantium. The Handbook is structured into seven sections: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thought; law in theory and practice; domestic life and material culture; labour, land, and economy; bodies and sexualities; gender and holiness; and the interplay of continuity and change throughout the medieval period. It contains material from some of the foremost scholars in this field, and it not only serves as the major reference text in medieval and gender studies, but also provides an agenda for future new research. -- Provided by publisher.
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