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Gender In The Early Medieval World : East And West, 300- 900

  • Gender In The Early Medieval World : East And West, 300- 900

  • Attribution

    edited by Leslie Brubaker and Julia M.H. Smith

  • Publication Details

    Book, Cambridge University Press, 2004

  • Availability

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  HQ1075.5.E85 G46 2004  AVAILABLE

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    It assesses the ways in which gender identity was established and manifested in written and material cultural forms, emphasizing the integral relationship between the masculine and feminine by exploring costume, attitudes to the body, social and political institutions and a wide range of literary genres. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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  • Contents

    • Introduction : Gendering the early medieval world / Julia M.H. Smith
    • Gender and ethnicity in the early Middle Ages / Walter Pohl
    • Clothes maketh the man : power dressing and elite masculinity in the later Roman world / Mary Harlow
    • Social transformation, gender transformation? The court eunuch, 300-900 / Shaun Tougher
    • Sex, lies and textuality : the Secret history of Prokopios and the rhetoric of gender in sixth-century Byzantium / Leslie Brubaker
    • Romance and reality in the Byzantine bride shows / Martha Vinson
    • Men, women and slaves in Abbasid society / Julia Bray
    • Gender and politics in the harem of al-Muqtadir / Nadia Maria El Cheikh
    • Dressing conservatively : women’s brooches as markers of ethnic identity? / Bonnie Effros
    • Gendering courts in the early medieval west / Janet L. Nelson
    • Men, women and liturgical practice in the early medieval west / Gisela Muschiol
    • Gender and the patronage of culture in Merovingian Gaul / Yitzhak Hen
    • Genealogy defined by women : the case of the Pippinids / Ian Wood
    • Bride shows revisited : praise, slander and exegesis in the reign of the empress Judith / Mayke de Jong
    • ‘What is the Word if not semen?’ Priestly bodies in Carolingian exegesis / Lynda Coon
    • Negotiating gender, family and status in Anglo-Saxon burial practices, c. 600-950 / Dawn Hadley

  • ISBN

    • 0521013275
    • 9780521013277
    • 0521813476
    • 9780521813471

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