Intersections of Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages [electronic resource] /
Beattie, C.editor.
Fenton, K.editor.
This collection of essays focuses attention on how medieval gender intersects with other categories of difference, particularly religion and ethnicity. It treats the period c.800-1500, with a particular focus on the era of the Gregorian reform movement, the First Crusade, and its linked attacks on Jews at home.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction: Gender, Power, and Difference; 1 'In what way can those who have left the world be distinguished?': Masculinity and the Difference between Carolingian Men; 2 Ruling Masculinities: From Adam to Apollonius of Tyre in Corpus 201b; 3 The Tears of Bishop Gundulf: Gender, Religion, and Emotion in the Late Eleventh Century; 4 Medieval Jewish/Christian Debate and the Question of Gender: Gilbert Crispin's Disputatio Iudei et Christiani; 5 Gender, Jewish Creditors, and Christian Debtors in Thirteenth-Century Exeter
6 Gendering the First Crusade in William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum7 Prince Bohemond, Princess Melaz, and the Gendering of Religious Difference in the Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis; 8 Chaucer's Viragos: A Postcolonial Engagement? A Case Study of the Man of Law's Tale, the Monk's Tale, and the Knight's Tale; 9 Warriors, Amazons, and Isles of Women: Medieval Travel Writing and Constructions of Asian Femininities; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This collection of essays focuses attention on how medieval gender intersects with other categories of difference, particularly religion and ethnicity. It treats the period c.800-1500, with a particular focus on the era of the Gregorian reform movement, the First Crusade, and its linked attacks on Jews at home.
Civilization-History.
Sociology.
Social history.
Europe-History.
Europe-History-476-1492.
History, Modern.
Cultural History.
Gender Studies.
Social History.
European History.
History of Medieval Europe.
Modern History.