ISBN:
9780816693375
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (386 p.))
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Medieval Cultures v.Vol 32
Series Statement:
EBL-Schweitzer
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Gender and difference in the Middle Ages
DDC:
305.30902
Keywords:
Civilization, Medieval
;
History
;
Philosophy
;
Sex differences
;
Sex role
;
Social history
;
Women
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Geschlechtsunterschied
;
Geschichte 500-1500
Abstract:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. DIFFERING CULTURES, DIFFERING POSSIBILITIES; 1. On the History of the Early Phallus; 2. Gender Irregularity as Entertainment: Institutionalized Transvestism at the Caliphal Court in Medieval Baghdad; 3. Reconfiguring the Prophet Daniel: Gender, Sanctity, and Castration in Byzantium; 4. Negotiating Gender in Anglo-Saxon England; PART II. DISCOURSES OF DOMINATION; 5. Male Friendship and the Suspicion of Sodomy in Twelfth-Century France; 6. Crucified by the Virtues: Monks, Lay Brothers, and Women in Thirteenth-Century Cistercian Saints' Lives
Abstract:
7. "Because the Other Is a Poor Woman She Shall Be Called His Wench": Gender, Sexuality, and Social Status in Late Medieval England Ruth Mazo Karras8. Re-Orienting Desire: Writing on Gender Trouble in Fourteenth-Century Egypt; PART III. INDIVIDUAL CHOICES, STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE; 9. Manual Labor, Begging, and Conflicting Gender Expectations in Thirteenth-Century Paris; 10. Female Homoerotic Discourse and Religion in Medieval Germanic Culture; 11. Nonviolent Christianity and the Strangeness of Female Power in Geoffrey Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale; Contributors
Abstract:
This volume demonstrates how the idea of gender-in the Middle Ages no less than now-intersected in subtle and complex ways with other categories of difference
Note:
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