Gender and status competition in pre-modern societies / edited by Martha Bayless, Jonas Liliequist, and Lewis Webb.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bayless, Martha, 1958- editor.

Liliequist, Jonas, editor.

Webb, Lewis, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Studies in the history of daily life (800-1600) ; v. 10.

Studies in the history of daily life (800-1600), 2565-8212 ; volume 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--History.

Sex role.

Men--Social conditions--History.

Men.

Women--Social conditions--History.

Women.

Social status--History.

Social status.

Women--Social conditions.

Men--Social conditions.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

340 pages : illustrations (black and white and color), map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2021]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Part. Practices

Practices: Introduction / Jonas Liliequist

Women, Seals, and Power in Prehistoric Iran and Central Asia / Marta Ameri

Exaequatio and aemulatio Regulation of Elite Female Status Competition in Mid-Republican Rome / Lewis Webb

Manly Virtues, Emotions, and Scars Competition among Italian Renaissance Soldiers through Bodily Practices / Giulia Morosini

Shame and Boastfulness in Early Modern Italy Showing off Masculinity and Exposing Sexual Submission in Class and Age Competitions / Umberto Grassi

`I Am as Honest a Man as You' Gender and Conflicts about Status and Honour in Early Modern Sweden / Jonas Liliequist

Practices

Reflections and Concluding Remarks / Jonas Liliequist

pt. II Performances

Performances: Introduction / Martha Bayless

Jealousy, Gender, and a Moralist's Mission in Early China / Yiqun Zhou

Early Medieval Board Games Issues of Power and Gender / Martha Bayless

The Social Circulation of Grief Status Competition, Mourning, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century China / Martin W. Huang

Just a Humble Petitioner of a Saint? Devotion as a Strategy for Prestige in Depositions of Fourteenth-Century Italian Canonization Processes / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa

Performances

Reflections and Concluding Remarks / Martha Bayless

pt. III (Re)presentations

(Representations: Introduction / Lewis Webb

Coniunx et sacerdos Livia as Widow and Priestess of Divus Augustus / Lovisa Brannstedt

Double Martyrdom, Double Crown Virgin Martyrs and Fourth-Century Ascetic Hierarchies / Sissel Undheim

A Competitive Fantasy Figure and his Female Conquests 'Umar ibn Abi Rabi'a / Julia Bray

Helisenne de Crenne Challenging Male Mastery Translating Virgil's Aeneid in the French Sixteenth Century / Sara Moding

(Representations

Reflections and Concluding Remarks / Lewis Webb.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9782503596327

2503596320

OCLC:

1295100175