Gendering the Middle Ages
A Gender and History Special Issue
Gender and History Special Issues
1. Auflage November 2001
252 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-22651-2
John Wiley & Sons
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.
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).
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).
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.
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.
