Gender in late medieval and early modern Europe / edited by Marianna G. Muravyeva and Raisa Maria Toivo.

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Routledge research in gender and history ; 14
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Physical Description:viii, 240 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: why and how gender matters? / Marianna Muravyeva and Raisa Maria Toivo
  • Historiography and the politics of gender
  • From women's oppression to male anxiety : the concept of "patriarchy" in the historiography of early modern Europe / Androniki Dialeti
  • The metaphysics of gender in Christine de Pizan's thought / Ilse Paakkinen
  • "That women are but men's shadows" : examining gender, violence and criminality in early modern Britain / Anne-Marie Kilday
  • Female spirituality, religion and gender identities
  • A good wife : demonic possession and discourses of gender in later medieval culture / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
  • Between martyrdom and everyday pragmatism : gender, family, and anabaptism in early modern Germany / Pivi Risnen
  • Women's sexuality between legal prescription and ecclesiastical control in the Romanian principalities in the 18th century / Constanta Vintila-Gitulesku
  • Gendered witches and Nordic patriarchal compromises
  • Women, witches, and the town courts of Ribe : ideas of the gendered witch in early modern Denmark / Louise Nyholm Kallestrup
  • Male witches and masculinity in early modern Finnish witchcraft trials / Raisa Maria Toivo
  • Gendering moral crimes in early modern England and Europe : blasphemy the mirror image of witchcraft / David Nash
  • Laws, genders and deviancies
  • Gendered suicide in early modern Sweden and Finland / Riikka Miettinen
  • The responsibility of a seducer : men and the breach of promise in early modern Swedish legislation / Mari Vimki
  • Personalizing homosexuality and masculinity in early modern Russia / Marianna Muravyeva / Contributors
  • Notes
  • Index.