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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 mainly by and about elite males, and how to combine social histories of lived experiences with cultural histories of gendered discourses and identities. The collection focuses on Western Europe in the Middle Ages but offers some consideration of medieval Islam and Byzantium, opening these fields for further research. The Handbook is structured into seven sections: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thought; law in theory and practice; domestic life and material culture; labour, land, and economy; bodies and sexualities; gender and holiness; and the interplay of continuity and change throughout the medieval period. This Handbook contains material from some of the foremost scholars in this field, and will not only serve as the major reference text in the area of medieval and gender studies, but will also provide the agenda for future new research.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe
• Author: Judith M Bennett
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 642
• EAN: 9780199582174
• ISBN: 0199582173
• ID: 01323558
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 1252 g
• Dimensions: 251 × 181 × 40 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. August 2013

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