Gendering the Middle Ages: A Gender and History Special Issue - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631226516 ISBN 13: 9780631226512

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002

Synopsis

A collection in which a group of leading historians of medieval Europe apply a gendered analysis to a series of questions ranging from the transformation of the Roman world and the Christian challenge to late antique masculinity, through canon law and Byzantine coinage to the childhood of medieval visionaries.

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From the Back Cover:

This book brings together a group of leading historians of the European middle ages. It ranges widely from the late Antique/Medieval transition to the early sixteenth century. Nine essays and four thematic reviews cover such topics as memory, sanctity, nunneries, the transformation of the Roman world, the Black Death, canon law, the Christian challenge to late Antique masculinity, the transmission of knowledge, visionaries' childhoods, late medieval courts, Byzantine coinage, the Norman Conquest of southern Italy and the proceedings of the Papal penitentiary.

The author indicates the possibilities and potential of a gendered approach to medieval history. They demonstrate how such an analyst can and should inform some of the key questions and periodisations of these centuries and how it can illuminate even the most traditional and apparently unlikely topics and source materials. It will be important to all students of medieval Europe.

About the Author:

Pauline Stafford is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Liverpool and the author of Queen Emma and Queen Edith: queenship and women's power in eleventh-century England (Blackwell, 1997) and Queens, concubines, and dowagers: the king's wife in the early Middle Ages (2nd edn., 1998).

Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker is senior lecturer in Medieval History and Medieval Studies at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands). She has published on historiographical and hagiographical topics, including Sanctity and Motherhood (1995) and is presently working on a book on female anchorites (recluses) in the Low Countries.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0631226516
• ISBN 13: 9780631226512
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: Stafford Pauline, Mulder-Bakker Anneke B.