Gendering the Middle Ages: A Gender and History Special Issue

ISBN-13: 9780631226512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 252 str.

Pauline Stafford; Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. The Gender of Grace: Impotence, Servitude, and Manliness in the Fifth–Century West: Kate Cooper and Conrad Leyser (University of Manchester).

2. Did women have a transformation of the Roman world?: Julia M. H. Smith (University of St Andrews).

3. The Gender of Money: Byzantine Empresses on Coins (324–802): Leslie Brubaker and Helen Tobler (University of Birmingham and independent researcher).

4. "Ex utroque sexu fidelium tres ordines" – The Status of Women in Early Medieval Canon Law: Eva M. Synek (University of Vienna).

5. "Halt! Be men!" Sikelgaita of Salerno, Gender and the Norman Conquest of Southern Italy: Patricia Skinner (University of Southampton).

6. The Metamorphosis of Woman: Transmission of Knowledge and the Problems of Gender: Anneke B. Mulder–Bakker (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen).

7. Visions of My Youth: Representations of the Childhood of Medieval Visionaries: Rosalynn Voaden and Stephanie Volf (Arizona State University).

8. Female Petitioners in the Papal Penitentiary: Ludwig Schmugge (University of Zurich).

9. Gendering Princely Dynasties. Some Notes on Family Structure, Social Networks, and Communication at the Courts of the Margraves of Brandenburg–Ansbach around 1500: Cordula Nolte (Ernst–Moritz–Arndt University of Greifswald).

Thematic Reviews Gender, Memory and Social Power: Janet L. Nelson (King′s College London).

Gender and Sanctity in the Middle Ages: Katherine J. Lewis (University of Huddersfield).

Gendering the Black Death: Women in Later Medieval England: S. H. Rigby (University of Manchester).

Nunneries, Communities and the Revaluation of Domesticity: Felicity Riddy (University of York).

O autorze

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.

Blurb

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.