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The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E. The essays collected in this volume speak to interpretative challenges common to all fields of women's and gender history - that is, how best to uncover the experiences of ordinary people from archives formed mainly by and about elite males, and how to combine social
histories of lived experiences with cultural histories of gendered discourses and identities. The collection focuses on Western Europe in the Middle Ages but offers some consideration of medieval Islam and
Byzantium, opening these fields for further research.The Handbook is structured into seven sections: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thought; law in theory and practice; domestic life and material culture; labour, land, and economy; bodies and sexualities; gender and holiness; and the interplay of continuity and change throughout the medieval period. This Handbook contains material from some of the foremost scholars in this field, and will not only serve as
the major reference text in the area of medieval and gender studies, but will also provide the agenda for future new research.
The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E. The essays collected in this volume speak to interpretative challenges common to all fields of women's and gender history - that is, how best to uncover the experiences of ordinary people from archives formed mainly by and about elite males, and how to combine social
histories of lived experiences with cultural histories of gendered discourses and identities. The collection focuses on Western Europe in the Middle Ages but offers some consideration of medieval Islam and
Byzantium, opening these fields for further research.The Handbook is structured into seven sections: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thought; law in theory and practice; domestic life and material culture; labour, land, and economy; bodies and sexualities; gender and holiness; and the interplay of continuity and change throughout the medieval period. This Handbook contains material from some of the foremost scholars in this field, and will not only serve as
the major reference text in the area of medieval and gender studies, but will also provide the agenda for future new research.
1: Judith M. Bennett and Ruth Mazo Karras: Introduction: Women,
Gender, and Medieval Historians
Gendered Thinking
2: Dyan Elliott: Gender and the Christian Traditions
3: Judith R. Baskin: Jewish Traditions about Women and Gender
Roles: From Rabbinic Teachings to Medieval Practice
4: Jonathan Berkey: Women and Gender in Islamic Traditions
5: Amalie Foessel: The Political Traditions of Female Rulership in
Medieval Europe
6: Katharine Park: Medicine and Natural Philosophy: Naturalistic
Traditions
Looking through the Law
7: Janet Nelson and Alice Rio: Women and Laws in Early Medieval
Europe
8: Carol Lansing: Conflicts over Gender in Civic Courts
9: Marie A. Kelleher: Later Medieval Law in Community Context
10: Susan Mosher Stuard: Brideprice, Dowry, and Other Marital
Assigns
11: Sara McDougall: Women and Gender in Canon Law
Domestic Lives
12: Maryanne Kowaleski: Gendering Demographic Change in the Middle
Ages
13: Katherine French: Genders and Material Culture
14: Elisheva Baumgarten: Gender and Daily Life in Jewish
Communities
15: Rachel Stone: Carolingian Domesticities
16: Sarah Rees Jones: Public and Private Space and Gender in
Medieval Europe
17: Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane: Pious Domesticities
Land, Labor, Economy
18: Sally McKee: Slavery
19: Kathryn Reyerson: Urban Economies
20: Jane Whittle: Rural Economies
21: Joanna Drell: Aristocratic Economies
Bodies, Pleasures, Desires
22: Monica H. Green: Caring for Gendered Bodies
23: Kathryn Ringrose: The Byzantine Body
24: Helmut Puff: Same-Sex Possibilities
25: E. Jane Burns: Performing Courtliness
Engendering Christian Holiness
26: Lisa M. Bitel: Gender and the Initial Christianization of
Northern Europe (to 1000 CE)
27: Albrecht Diem: The Gender of the Religious: Wo/men and the
Invention of Monasticism
28: Fiona Griffiths: Women and Reform in the Central Middle
Ages
29: Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker: Devoted Holiness in the Lay World
30: Miri Rubin: Cults of Saints
31: John H. Arnold: Heresy and Gender in the Middle Ages
32: Kathleen Ashley: Cultures of Devotion
Turning Points and Places
33: Kate Cooper: The Bride of Christ, the "Male Woman", and the
Female Reader in Late Antiquity
34: Constance Berman: Gender at the Medieval Millennium
35: Martha Howell: Gender in the Transition to Merchant
Capitalism
36: Laura Stokes: Toward the Witch Craze
37: Roberta L. Krueger: Towards Feminism: Christine de Pizan,
Female Advocacy, and Women's Textual Communities in the Late Middle
Ages and Beyond
Judith M. Bennett teaches women's history and medieval history at
the University of Southern California. She is the author of a
number of books and articles on medieval women and on the feminist
practice of history, as well as a popular textbook on medieval
European history. Ruth Mazo Karras teaches history at the
University of Minnesota. She is the author of five books and
numerous articles in medieval history and the history of gender and
sexuality. She is a
co-editor of the journal Gender and History, General Editor of the
Middle Ages Series at the University of Pennsylvania Press, and a
former president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.
a monumental undertaking. It has to be stated straight away,
though, that this book is also an intellectually monumental and
much-needed project that brings together the latest scholarship and
thinking on women and gender studies... Bennett and Karras are to
be congratulated on establishing a handbook that brings together an
exciting range of the most up-to-date research on gender.
*Gabriele Neher, History Today*
Students will appreciate the Handbook for its helpful
introductions, while more advanced readers and specialists in the
field will find the new interpretations, provocative thinking and
illustrative material inspiring. The volume ought to be on
everyone's bookshelf or, in electronic form, bookmarked on one's
computer. The editors should be congratulated on having gathered
together the very best in current scholarship.
*Elisabeth Van Houts, English Historical Review*
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