ISBN:
9780415537230
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 240 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge research in gender and history 14
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Gender and History Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
Men History
;
Gender identity History
;
Women History
;
Gender identity ; Europe ; History
;
Men ; Europe ; History
;
Women ; Europe ; History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This project is an attempt to challenge the canonical gender concept while trying to specify what gender was in the medieval and early modern world. Despite the emphasis on individual, identity and difference that past research claims, much of this history still focuses on hierarchical or dichotomous paring of masculinity and femininity (or male and female). The emphasis on differences has been largely based on the research of such topics as premarital sex, religious deviance, rape and violence; these are topics that were, in the early modern society, criminal or at least easily marginalizi
Description / Table of Contents:
Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why and How Gender Matters?; Part I Historiography and the Politics of Gender; 1 From Women's Oppression to Male Anxiety: The Concept of 'Patriarchy' in the Historiography of Early Modern Europe; 2 The Metaphysics of Gender in Christine de Pizan's Thought; 3 'That Women Are But Men's Shadows': Examining Gender, Violence and Criminality in Early Modern Britain; Part II Female Spirituality, Religion, and Gender Identities
Description / Table of Contents:
4 A Good Wife?: Demonic Possession and Discourses of Gender in Late Medieval Culture5 Between Martyrdom and Everyday Pragmatism: Gender, Family, and Anabaptism in Early Modern Germany; 6 Women's Sexuality between Legal Prescription and Ecclesiastical Control in the Romanian Principalities in the 18th Century; Part III Gendered Witches and Nordic Patriarchal Compromises; 7 Women, Witches, and the Town Courts of Ribe: Ideas of the Gendered Witch in Early Modern Denmark; 8 Male Witches and Masculinity in Early Modern Finnish Witchcraft Trials
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Gendering Moral Crimes in Early Modern England and Europe-Blasphemy the Mirror Image of Witchcraft?Part IV Laws, Genders, and Deviancies; 10 Gendered Suicide in Early Modern Sweden and Finland; 11 Responsibility of a Seducer?: Men, Women, and Breach of Promise in Early Modern Swedish Legislation; 12 Personalizing Homosexuality and Masculinity in Early Modern Russia; Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index
Description / Table of Contents:
List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: why and how gender matters? / Marianna Muravyeva and Raisa Maria Toivo -- Historiography and the politics of gender -- From women's oppression to male anxiety : the concept of "patriarchy" in the historiography of early modern Europe / Androniki Dialeti -- The metaphysics of gender in Christine de Pizan's thought / Ilse Paakkinen -- "That women are but men's shadows" : examining gender, violence and criminality in early modern Britain / Anne-Marie Kilday -- Female spirituality, religion and gender identities -- A good wife : demonic possession and discourses of gender in later medieval culture / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa -- Between martyrdom and everyday pragmatism : gender, family, and anabaptism in early modern Germany / Pivi Risnen -- Women's sexuality between legal prescription and ecclesiastical control in the Romanian principalities in the 18th century / Constanta Vintila-Gitulesku -- Gendered witches and Nordic patriarchal compromises -- Women, witches, and the town courts of Ribe : ideas of the gendered witch in early modern Denmark / Louise Nyholm Kallestrup -- Male witches and masculinity in early modern Finnish witchcraft trials / Raisa Maria Toivo -- Gendering moral crimes in early modern England and Europe : blasphemy the mirror image of witchcraft / David Nash -- Laws, genders and deviancies -- Gendered suicide in early modern Sweden and Finland / Riikka Miettinen -- The responsibility of a seducer : men and the breach of promise in early modern Swedish legislation / Mari Vimki -- Personalizing homosexuality and masculinity in early modern Russia / Marianna Muravyeva / Contributors -- Notes -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
