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  • A Medieval Life

    Cecilia Penifader and the World of English Peasants Before the Plague

    by Judith M. Bennett ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an introduction to historical method.A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an introduction to historical method. Written in a clear and accessible style, it reworks a well-loved book to provide an entirely new resource for students, teachers, and general readers.Like Cecilia ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England

    Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600

    by Judith M. Bennett ...
    Women brewed and sold most of the ale consumed in medieval England, but after 1350, men slowly took over the trade. By 1600, most brewers in London were male, and men also dominated the trade in many towns and villages. This book asks how, when, and why brewing ceased to be women's work and instead became a job for men. Employing a wide variety of sources and methods, Bennett vividly describes how ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • History Matters

    Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism

    by Judith M. Bennett ...
    Written for everyone interested in women's and gender history, History Matters reaffirms the importance to feminist theory and activism of long-term historical perspectives. Judith M. Bennett, who has been commenting on developments in women's and gender history since the 1980s, argues that the achievement of a more feminist future relies on a rich, plausible, and well-informed knowledge of the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Medieval Life

    Cecilia Penifader and the World of English Peasants Before the Plague

    by Judith M. Bennett ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an introduction to historical method.A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an introduction to historical method. Written in a clear and accessible style, it reworks a well-loved book to provide an entirely new resource for students, teachers, and general readers.Like Cecilia ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe

    Edited by Judith M. Bennett, Ruth Mazo Karras ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E. The essays collected in this volume speak to interpretative challenges common to all fields of women's and gender history - that is, how best to uncover the experiences of ordinary people from archives formed ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • History Matters

    Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism

    by Judith M. Bennett ...
    Written for everyone interested in women's and gender history, History Matters reaffirms the importance to feminist theory and activism of long-term historical perspectives. Judith M. Bennett, who has been commenting on developments in women's and gender history since the 1980s, argues that the achievement of a more feminist future relies on a rich, plausible, and well-informed knowledge of the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • The Enlightenment

    A Very Short Introduction

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    A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration of our commitments to the betterment of the human condition. To others, it represents the elevation of one set of European values to the world, many of whose peoples have quite different values. But ... Read more

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  • Marriage, a History

    How Love Conquered Marriage

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    Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?" In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is—and how absurd it would have seemed ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Once and Future Sex

    Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society

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    **A “provocative, colloquial and entertaining” (Carolyne Larrington, Times Literary Supplement) exploration of medieval thinking about women’s beauty, sexuality, and behavior.“A timely corrective…Ms. Janega’s witty but merciless dissection of medieval misogyny is a welcome challenge to us to stop recycling the same old prejudices.”—Elizabeth Lowry, Wall Street Journal**What makes for the ideal ... Read more

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  • Thinking About History

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  • The Dark Box

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