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The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (Oxford Handbooks in History)
Judith M. Bennett (Ed.)
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Description for The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (Oxford Handbooks in History)
Paperback. Provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E. Editor(s): Bennett, Judith M.; Karras, Ruth Mazo. Series: Oxford Handbooks in History. Num Pages: 640 pages, 7 black and white images. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 246 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1092.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Oxford Handbooks in History
Condition
New
Weight
1092g
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198779384
SKU
V9780198779384
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About Judith M. Bennett (Ed.)
Judith M. Bennett teaches women's history and medieval history at the University of Southern California. She is the author of a number of books and articles on medieval women and on the feminist practice of history, as well as a popular textbook on medieval European history. Ruth Mazo Karras teaches history at the University of Minnesota. She is ... Read more
Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (Oxford Handbooks in History)
a monumental undertaking. It has to be stated straight away, though, that this book is also an intellectually monumental and much-needed project that brings together the latest scholarship and thinking on women and gender studies... Bennett and Karras are to be congratulated on establishing a handbook that brings together an exciting range of the most up-to-date research on gender.
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