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The Oxford handbook of women and gender in medieval Europe
Title
The Oxford handbook of women and gender in medieval Europe / edited by Judith Bennett and Ruth Karras.
ISBN
9780191749919 (ebook) :
Publication
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Feb. 14, 2013).
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Summary
This book maps out what we now firmly know-and what we are just beginning to know - after four decades of scholarship on women and gender in medieval Europe. Medieval gender rules seem both foreign and familiar today. Medieval people understood religion, law, love, marriage, and sexual identity in distinctive ways that compel us today to understand women and gender as changeable, malleable, and unyoked from constraints of nature or biology. Yet some medieval views are echoed in modern traditions, and those echoes tease out critical tensions of continuity and change in gender relations.
Variant and related titles
Women and gender in medieval Europe
Oxford handbooks online.
Other formats
Print version
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 21, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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