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The Oxford handbook of women and gender in medieval Europe / edited by Judith Bennett and Ruth Karras.
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- Book
- Series:
- Oxford handbooks online
- Oxford handbooks in history.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Europe--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.
- Women.
- Europe.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Other Title:
- Women and gender in medieval Europe
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Feb. 14, 2013).
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 9780191749919
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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