Medieval Intersections : : Gender and Status in Europe in the Middle Ages / / ed. by Katherine Weikert, Elena Woodacre.
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...
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Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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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