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  • Before Orientalism

    Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-151

    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    A distinct European perspective on Asia emerged in the late Middle Ages. Early reports of a homogeneous "India" of marvels and monsters gave way to accounts written by medieval travelers that indulged readers' curiosity about far-flung landscapes and cultures without exhibiting the attitudes evident in the later writings of aspiring imperialists. Mining the accounts of more than twenty Europeans ... Leer más

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  • A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages

    Edición de Kim M. Phillips ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    The medieval era has been described as 'the Age of Chivalry' and 'the Age of Faith' but also as 'the Dark Ages'. Medieval women have often been viewed as subject to a punishing misogyny which limited their legal rights and economic activities, but some scholars have claimed they enjoyed a 'rough and ready equality' with men. The contrasting figures of Eve and the Virgin Mary loom over historians' ... Leer más

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  • A Companion to Julian of Norwich

    Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth/early fifteenth-century anchoress and mystic, is one of the most important and best-known figures of the Middle Ages. Her Revelations, intense visions of the divine, have been widely studied and read; the first known writings of an English woman, their influence extends over theology and literature. However, many aspects of both her life and thought remain ... Leer más

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  • Before Orientalism

    Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-151

    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    A distinct European perspective on Asia emerged in the late Middle Ages. Early reports of a homogeneous "India" of marvels and monsters gave way to accounts written by medieval travelers that indulged readers' curiosity about far-flung landscapes and cultures without exhibiting the attitudes evident in the later writings of aspiring imperialists. Mining the accounts of more than twenty Europeans ... Leer más

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  • Sex Before Sexuality

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    Series series Themes in History
    Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past. Before the 'invention' of sexuality, erotic acts and desires were comprehended as species of sin, expressions of idealised love, courtship, and marriage, or components of intimacies between men or women, not as outworkings of an innermost self. With a focus on c. ... Leer más

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  • Sexualities in History

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    Edición de Kim M. Phillips, Barry Reay ...
    Over the past twenty years, historians have overturned nearly everything we once took for granted about human sexuality. Gender, sexual orientation, "deviance," and even the biology of sex have been unmasked for what they are-historically specific, culturally contested, and above all, unstable constructions. ... Leer más

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Gender and Holiness

    Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe

    Edición de Sam Riches, Sarah Salih ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    This collection brings together two flourishing areas of medieval scholarship: gender and religion. It examines gender-specific religious practices and contends that the pursuit of holiness can destabilise binary gender itself. Though saints may be classified as masculine or feminine, holiness may also cut across gender divisions and demand a break from normally gendered behaviour. This work of ... Leer más

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  • A Companion to the Medieval World

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    Series Libro 16 - Blackwell Companions to European History
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  • Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England

    Series series Routledge Research in Medieval Studies
    This thought-provoking book explores medieval perceptions of pilgrimage, gender and space. It examines real life evidence for the widespread presence of women pilgrims, as well as secular and literary texts concerning pilgrimage and women pilgrims represented in the visual arts. Women pilgrims were inextricably linked with sexuality and their presence on the pilgrimage trails was viewed as ... Leer más

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  • Routledge Revivals: Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (2006)

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  • Femina

    A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

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