ISBN:
9781440872358
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxviii, 224 Seiten)
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Series Statement:
The Greenwood Press daily life through history series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Tuten, Belle S. Daily life of women in Medieval Europe
DDC:
305.420940902
Keywords:
Women History Middle Ages, 500-1500
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Women Social conditions
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Women Social life and customs
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Women Political activity To 1500
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History
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Women-Political activity-Europe-History-To 1500
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Women-Europe-History-Middle Ages, 500-1500
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Women-Europe-Social life and customs
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Women-Europe-Social conditions
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Electronic books
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Europa
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Frau
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Alltag
;
Geschichte 500-1500
Abstract:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chronology -- 1. Marriage and Sexuality -- Late Antique and Early Medieval Marriage -- Roman Marriage -- Germanic Marriage -- Age at First Marriage -- The Christian Influence on Early Medieval Marriage -- Sex in Marriage-Fourth Through Eleventh Centuries -- Concubinage and Polygyny -- High Medieval Marriage and Sexuality -- Sex in Marriage-Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries -- Positive and Negative Views of Sex -- Positive and Negative Views of Marriage and Women -- Jewish Marriage and Sexuality -- Rape and Sexual Violence -- Domestic Abuse -- Conclusion -- 2. Childbirth, Child Rearing, and the Life Cycle -- Understanding the Female Body -- Pregnancy -- Childbirth -- Birth Attendants and Midwives -- Contraception, Abortion, and Infanticide -- Illegitimacy and Abandonment -- The Ages of Man -- Stages of Life: The Family -- Stages of Life: Infancy -- Stages of Life: Adolescence -- Stages of Life: Adulthood -- Stages of Life: Widowhood -- Stages of Life: Old Age -- Stages of Life: A Good Death -- Conclusion -- 3. Working Women -- Living and Working in the Countryside: Serfs and Peasants -- Everyday Food -- Upper-Class Food and Feasts -- Cloth Production -- Town Work in the Middle Ages -- Creating and Transmitting Knowledge: Book Production -- Caregiving and Healing -- Conclusion -- 4. Noble Women -- Marriages and Children -- Dowry, Dower, and Inheritance -- Royal Power and Regency -- Conduct of an Aristocratic Lady: Ideals -- Daily Life for Upper-Class Women -- Leisure Time -- Conclusion -- 5. Religion and the Church -- Daily Religious Practice -- Finances and Endowments -- New and Reformed Religious Orders -- Lay Piety and Beguinage -- Mysticism -- Joan of Arc: Saint or Heretic? -- Conclusion -- 6. Women on the Outskirts -- Crimes and Incarceration -- Sexual Transgressions.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 205 - 217
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