Medieval Intersections : : Gender and Status in Europe in the Middle Ages / / ed. by Katherine Weikert, Elena Woodacre.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Battaglia, Frank,; Brown, Linda D.,; Brown, Rohan,; Creber, Alison,; Hanna, Natalie,; Leet, Elizabeth S.,; McGlynn, Sean,; Moss, Rachel E.,; Vidal, Mercedes Pérez,; Weikert, Katherine,; Welch, Christina,; Woodacre, Elena,
• HerausgeberIn: Weikert, Katherine,; Woodacre, Elena,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (130 p.)

Status and gender are two closely associated concepts within medieval society, which tended to view both notions as binary: elite or low status, married or single, holy or cursed, male or female, or as complementary and cohesive as multiple parts of a societal whole. With contributions on topics ran...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Index
• Illustrations, Tables and Figures
• Preface
• Introduction: Gender and Status in the Medieval World
• Chapter 1 Mirrors for Margraves: Peter Damian’s Models for Male and Female Rulers
• Chapter 2 Inaudito exemplo: The Abduction of Romsey’s Abbess
• Chapter 3 The Corpus Christi Devotion: Gender, Liturgy, and Authority among Dominican Nuns in Castile in the Middle Ages
• Chapter 4 From Villainous Letch and Sinful Outcast, to “Especially Beloved of God” Complicating the Medieval Leper through Gender and Social Status
• Chapter 5 “To take a wyf” Marriage, Status, and Moral Conduct in “The Merchant’s Tale”
• Chapter 6 Objectification, Empowerment, and the Male Gaze in the Lanval Corpus
• Chapter 7 Pueri Sunt Pueri: Machismo, Chivalry, and the Aggressive Pastimes of the Medieval Male Youth
• Chapter 8 “And much more I am soryat for my good knyghts” Fainting, Homosociality, and Elite Male Culture in Middle English Romance
• Chapter 9 Wrist Clasps and Patriliny: A Hypothesis
• Index