Medieval Anchoritisms

Liz Herbert McAvoy

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 6
• Originating in the deserts of northern Africa in the early years of Christianity, anchoritism, or the enclosed solitary life, gradually metamorphosed ... Lees meer

Authority, Gender and Space in the Anglo-Norman World, 900-1200

Katherine Weikert

• Paperback | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 14
• An interdisciplinary approach to the medieval manor pre- and post-Conquest. SHORTLISTED for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's... Lees meer

Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640

Lynneth Miller Renberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 19
• A lively exploration of the medieval and early modern attitudes towards dance, as the perception of dancers changed from saints dancing after Christ t... Lees meer

Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 9
• The complex relationship between masculinity and religion, as experienced in both the secular and ecclesiastical worlds, forms the focus for this volu... Lees meer

The Pastoral Care of Women in Late Medieval England

Beth Allison Barr

• Paperback | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 3
• A close examination of religious texts illuminates the way in which parish priests dealt with their female parishioners in the Middle Ages. The questi... Lees meer

Authority, Gender and Space in the Anglo-Norman World, 900-1200

Katherine Weikert

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 14
• SHORTLISTED for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Hitchcock Medallion. A ground-breaking interdisciplinary approach to the me... Lees meer

The Unspeakable, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Literature, 1000-1400

Victoria Blud

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 12
• An investigation of the motif of the unspeakable as manifested in a wide range of medieval texts, from the Exeter Book to Chaucer. Amid saints and sin... Lees meer

Women and Devotional Literature in the Middle Ages

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 21
• Essays on women and devotional literature in the Middle Ages in commemoration and celebration of the respected feminist scholar Catherine Innes-Parker... Lees meer

Middle-Aged Women in the Middle Ages

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 7
• New research into medieval women from the Anglo-Saxon to the late medieval period demonstrates their energy, defiance and wit. The phenomenon of medie... Lees meer

Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 11
• An exploration of the relations between medical and religious discourse and practice in medieval culture, focussing on how they are affected by gender... Lees meer

Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages

• Paperback | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 9
• Essays offering new approaches to the changing forms of medieval religious masculinity. The complex relationship between masculinity and religion, as ... Lees meer

Popular Memory and Gender in Medieval England

Bronach Kane

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 13
• This book considers for the first time how gender influenced the ways that "ordinary" men and women remembered past events in the centuries leading up... Lees meer

Holy Harlots in Medieval English Religious Literature

Juliette Vuille

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 17
• During the Middle Ages, the lives of saints such as Mary Magdalen and Mary of Egypt - "holy harlots", women who repented of an early life of licentiou... Lees meer

Gender, Nation and Conquest in the Works of William of Malmesbury

Kirsten Fenton

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 4
• A fresh new approach to the works of William of Malmesbury, looking in particular at his presentation of men and women. William of Malmesbury is one o... Lees meer

Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 20
• Initiates a wider development of inquiries into women's literary cultures to move the reader beyond single geographical, linguistic, cultural and peri... Lees meer

Monsters, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval English Literature

Dana M Oswald

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 5
• A gendered reading of monster and the monstrous body in medieval literature. Monsters abound in Old and Middle English literature, from Grendel and hi... Lees meer

Reconsidering Gender, Time and Memory in Medieval Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 10
• A consideration of the ways in which the past was framed and remembered in the pre-modern world. The training and use of memory was crucial in medieva... Lees meer

Gender and Medieval Drama

Katie Normington

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 1
• The focus of this study is upon the Corpus Christi plays, supplemented by other performance practices such as festive and social entertainments, civic... Lees meer

Addressing Women in Early Medieval Religious Texts

Kathryn Maude

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 18
• An investigation into texts specifically addressed to women sheds new light on female literary cultures. From the tenth to the twelfth centuries in En... Lees meer

Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 8
• There has been a tendency in scholarship on premodern women and the law to see married women as hidden from view, obscured by their husbands in legal ... Lees meer

Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance

Lucy M Allen-Goss

• Paperback | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 15
• An examination of female same-sex desire in Chaucer and medieval romance. In both medieval and modern contexts, women who do not desire men invite awk... Lees meer

Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance

Lucy M Allen-Goss

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages
• An examination of female same-sex desire in Chaucer and medieval romance. In both medieval and modern contexts, women who do not desire men invite awk... Lees meer

Popular Memory and Gender in Medieval England

Bronach Kane

• Paperback | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 13
• An exploration of the influence of gender on the workings of memory in the Middle Ages, focussing on the non-elite. WINNER of the Women's History Netw... Lees meer

Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England

E Amanda McVitty

• Hardcover | Engels | Gender in the Middle Ages | nr. 16
• Conflicts over treason tormented English political society in the later Middle Ages. As legal and political historians have shown, treason was always ... Lees meer