Intersections of Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages

by C. Beattie (Editor), K. Fenton (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230579927
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/04/2011
Series:	Genders and Sexualities in History Series
Edition description:	2011
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

WILLIAM M. AIRD Lecturer in Medieval History, Cardiff University, UK
CORDELIA BEATTIE Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Edinburgh, UK
JULIETTE DOR Professor of Medieval English Literature, University of Liège, France
KIRSTEN A. FENTON Lecturer in Medieval History, the University of St Andrews, UK
STEVEN. F. KRUGER Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Queens College, The City University of New York, USA
HANNAH MEYER PhD Graduate, Queens' College, University of Cambridge, UK
CAROL BRAUN PASTERNACK Associate Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
KIM M. PHILLIPS Senior Lecturer in History, the University of Auckland, New Zealand
RACHEL STONE Departmental Library Cataloguer, Department of Coins and Medals, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
SIMON YARROW Lecturer in Medieval History, the University of Birmingham, UK

Table of Contents

List of Tables Acknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction: Gender, Power, and Difference; C.Beattie 'In what way can those who have left the world be distinguished?': Masculinity and the Difference between Carolingian Men; R.Stone Ruling Masculinities: From Adam to Apollonius of Tyre in Corpus 201b; C.Braun Pasternack The Tears of Bishop Gundulf: Gender, Religion and Emotion in the Late Eleventh Century; W.M.Aird Medieval Jewish/Christian Debate and the Question of Gender: Gilbert Crispin's Disputatio Iudei et Christiani; S.F.Kruger Gender, Jewish Creditors and Christian Debtors in Thirteenth-Century Exeter; H.Meyer Gendering the First Crusade in William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum; K.A.Fenton Prince Bohemond, Princess Melaz, and the Gendering of Religious Difference in the Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis; S.Yarrow 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; J.Dor Warriors, Amazons and Isles of Women: Medieval Travel Writing and Constructions of Asian Feminities; K.M.Phillips Notes Index

Editorial Reviews

"The essays are overall remarkably clear in their argumentation and conclusions, with well-justified, representative choices of primary material and concise discussions of the most relevant secondary sources . . . rewarding reading for both a specialized and general audience." - Stephanie Knauss, University of Cologne, Germany, Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal

"This volume is to be applauded for bringing together examinations of both masculinity and femininity, as gender difference is interrogated in both directions." - Margaret Cotter-Lynch, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, US

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