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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books Sources |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Representing medieval genders and sexualities in Europe. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011 (DLC) 2011001429 (OCoLC)700205573 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Elizabeth L'Estrange; Alison More |
| ISBN: | 9781409409878 1409409872 9781409409885 1409409880 |
| OCLC Number: | 759870434 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 202 p.) |
| Contents: | Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Representing Medieval Genders and Sexualities in Europe; 2 'What, after all, is a male virgin?'; 3 Convergence, Conversion, and Transformation; 4 Constructing Political Rule, Transforming Gender Scripts; 6 Representing Gender Identity; 7 Constructing Female Sanctity in Late Medieval Naples; 8 Topsy-Turvy Gender Relations in Fifteenth-Century Italian Households; 9 Fashioning Female Humanist Scholarship; 10 Mightier than the Sword; Bibliography; Index; |
| Responsibility: | edited by Elizabeth L'Estrange, Alison More. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
Engaging with current academic debates over the complexities and pluralities of gender identity in the Middle Ages, this volume is one of the first collections to show how the themes of gender construction, subversion and transformation are applicable to a wide range of fields.
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'a wide-ranging collection that shows the maturity of the field of medieval gender studies.'
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- Gender identity -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
- Sex customs -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
- Gender identity -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources.
- Sex customs -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources.
- Europe -- Social life and customs.
- Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492.
- Europe -- Intellectual life.
- Europe -- Religious life and customs.
- Art and society -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
- Popular culture -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
- Social Science.