| Description |
xi, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Gendering the early medieval world / Julia M.H. Smith -- Gender and ethnicity in the early Middle Ages / Walter Pohl -- Clothes maketh the man : power dressing and elite masculinity in the later Roman world / Mary Harlow -- Social transformation, gender transformation? The court eunuch, 300-900 / Shaun Tougher -- Sex, lies and textuality : the Secret history of Prokopios and the rhetoric of gender in sixth-century Byzantium / Leslie Brubaker -- Romance and reality in the Byzantine bride shows / Martha Vinson -- Men, women and slaves in Abbasid society / Julia Bray -- Gender and politics in the harem of al-Muqtadir / Nadia Maria El Cheikh -- Dressing conservatively : women's brooches as markers of ethnic identity? / Bonnie Effros -- Gendering courts in the early medieval west / Janet L. Nelson -- Men, women and liturgical practice in the early medieval west / Gisela Muschiol -- Gender and the patronage of culture in Merovingian Gaul / Yitzhak Hen -- Genealogy defined by women : the case of the Pippinids / Ian Wood -- Bride shows revisited : praise, slander and exegesis in the reign of the empress Judith / Mayke de Jong -- 'What is the Word if not semen?' Priestly bodies in Carolingian exegesis / Lynda Coon -- Negotiating gender, family and status in Anglo-Saxon burial practices, c. 600-950 / Dawn Hadley. |
| Subject |
Sex role -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
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Sex role. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
Women -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
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Women. |
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Men -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
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Men. |
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Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492.
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1492 |
| Subject |
Feminist theory.
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Feminist theory. |
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Gender roles. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Men. |
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Feminist theory. |
| Added Author |
Brubaker, Leslie.
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Smith, Julia M. H.
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| ISBN |
0521813476 |
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0521013275 paperback |
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