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Cambridge Medieval Textbooks: Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400-1100
Lisa M. Bitel
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Description for Cambridge Medieval Textbooks: Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400-1100
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This is a history of the early European middle ages through the eyes of women, combining the rich literature of women's history with original research in the context of mainstream history and traditional chronology. The book begins at the end of the Roman empire and ends with the start of the long eleventh century, when women and men set out to test the old frontiers of Europe. The book recreates the lives of ordinary women but also tells personal stories of individuals. Each chapter also questions an assumption of medieval historiography, and uses the few documents produced by women themselves, along with archaeological evidence, art, and the written records of medieval men, to tell of women, their experiences and ideas, and their relations with men. It covers the continent and its exotic edges, such as Iceland, Ireland, and Iberia; looking at women Christian and non-Christian alike.
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Series
Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
Condition
New
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521597739
SKU
V9780521597739
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About Lisa M. Bitel
Lisa M. Bitel is Professor of History, University of Southern California. She studied at Harvard University, the National University of Ireland and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Her books include Isle of the Saints: Christian Settlement and Monastic Community in Early Ireland (1990) and Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland (1996), winner of the Byron Caldwell Prize and the James Donnelly Prize.
Reviews for Cambridge Medieval Textbooks: Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400-1100
'Lisa Bitel has written a polemical book ...'. Journal of Continuity and Change (There is) rich detail and complexity of the chapters...To those who will follow her, Bitel offers her book as signalling 'the beginning of a process of remembering'. It does this and at the same time makes a major contribution to the historiography of European women. John J. Contreni, Purdue University Women in Early Medieval Europe takes a fresh approach to the history of the early Middle Ages, and presents an impressive body of evidence...I would not hesitate to use this book as one of several texts in an undergraduate course, and I don't doubt that it would provoke lively discussion, not only about the lives of women and men in the Middle Ages, but also about the study of history and the variety of ways that it can be approached. Comitatus The book has been engagingly written in an easy, at times almost chatty, style that newcomers to the Middle Ages in particular will welcome... This is a searching study which provides excellent coverage of the knowable evidence and as a result presents a stimulating introduction to the topic. I enjoyed reading it immensely and recommend in the strongest possible terms to teachers and students of the history of women (and men) in the Middle Ages. E.M.C. Van Houts, University of Cambridge Writing the history of women in early medieval Europe is a big job, and Bitel is the first to undertake it in a book-length study. Sixteenth Century Journal, Susan P. Millinger, Roanoke College