Gender in late medieval and early modern Europe / edited by Marianna G. Muravyeva and Raisa Maria Tovio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Muravyeva, Marianna.

Tovio, Raisa Maria.

Series:

Routledge Research in Gender and History

Routledge research in gender and history ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity--Europe--History.

Gender identity.

Women--Europe--History.

Women.

Men--Europe--History.

Men.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This project is an attempt to challenge the canonical gender concept while trying to specify what gender was in the medieval and early modern world. Despite the emphasis on individual, identity and difference that past research claims, much of this history still focuses on hierarchical or dichotomous paring of masculinity and femininity (or male and female). The emphasis on differences has been largely based on the research of such topics as premarital sex, religious deviance, rape and violence; these are topics that were, in the early modern society, criminal or at least easily marginalizi

Contents:

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: why and how gender matters? / Marianna Muravyeva and Raisa Maria Toivo

Historiography and the politics of gender

From women's oppression to male anxiety : the concept of "patriarchy" in the historiography of early modern Europe / Androniki Dialeti

The metaphysics of gender in Christine de Pizan's thought / Ilse Paakkinen

"That women are but men's shadows" : examining gender, violence and criminality in early modern Britain / Anne-Marie Kilday

Female spirituality, religion and gender identities

A good wife : demonic possession and discourses of gender in later medieval culture / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa

Between martyrdom and everyday pragmatism : gender, family, and anabaptism in early modern Germany / Pivi Risnen

Women's sexuality between legal prescription and ecclesiastical control in the Romanian principalities in the 18th century / Constanta Vintila-Gitulesku

Gendered witches and Nordic patriarchal compromises

Women, witches, and the town courts of Ribe : ideas of the gendered witch in early modern Denmark / Louise Nyholm Kallestrup

Male witches and masculinity in early modern Finnish witchcraft trials / Raisa Maria Toivo

Gendering moral crimes in early modern England and Europe : blasphemy the mirror image of witchcraft / David Nash

Laws, genders and deviancies

Gendered suicide in early modern Sweden and Finland / Riikka Miettinen

The responsibility of a seducer : men and the breach of promise in early modern Swedish legislation / Mari Vimki

Personalizing homosexuality and masculinity in early modern Russia / Marianna Muravyeva / Contributors

Notes

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-27538-X

0-203-11060-9

1-299-16097-2

1-136-27539-8

9780203110607

OCLC:

829461183