Considering Medieval Women and Gender

Informationen zum Autor Susan Mosher Stuard is a Professor of History! emerita! at Haverford College! USA Zusammenfassung Collects a set of articles on women and gender in the Middle Ages. This title explores the Ragusa/Dubrovnik archives, considering patterns of gift-giving at marriage and of consumption. It focuses on slavery, specifically women destined for domestic service. It contain historiographical surveys of the field of women and gender studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface; Part 1 Autobiography: Latent feminist loosed on medieval history (1935-); Part 2 Dowry! Marriage and Consumption: Dowry increase and increments in wealth in medieval Ragusa (Dubrovnik); Burdens of matrimony: husbanding and gender in medieval Italy; Gravitas and consumption; Marriage gifts and fashion mischief. Part 3 Medieval Women and Slavery: Urban domestic slavery in medieval Ragusa; Ancillary evidence for the decline of medieval slavery; 'Qui natus est de ancilla mea' in medieval church law. Part 4 Historiography and Gender: The Annales school and feminist history: opening dialogue with the American stepchild; A new dimension? North American scholars contribute their perspective; From women to woman: new thinking about gender! c.1140; The chase after theory: considering medieval women; The three-decade transformation: medieval women and the course of history; Eleanor Shipley Duckett (1880-1976): historian of the Latin Middle Ages. Part 5 Medieval Lives; Dame Trot; Bencius del Buono and family; The life of Maria of Venice (1379-1399); Index.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Stuard, Susan Mosher Stuard, Stuard Susan Mosher
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2010
• EAN: 9780754669135
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-6913-5
• No. of pages: 330
• Series: Variorum Collected Studies; Variorum Collected Studies Series; Variorum Collected Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Gender studies: women and girls, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE