Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages

Name: Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9780226042480

ISBN-10: 0226042480

ISBN-13: 9780226042480

Edition: 1989

Authors: Judith M. Bennett, Elizabeth A. Clark, Jean F. O'Barr, B. Anne Vilen, Sarah Westphal-Wihl

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Focusing on medieval women with a wide range of occupations and life-styles, the interdisciplinary essays in this collection examine women's activities within the patriarchal structures of the time. Individual essays explore women's challenges to a sexual ideology that confined them strictly to the roles of wives, mothers, and servants. Also included are sections on women and work, cultural production and literacy, and religious life. These essays provide a greater understanding of the ways in which gender has played a part in determining relations of power in Western cultures. This volume makes a vital contribution to the current scholarship about women in the Middle Ages.

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/2/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Elizaebth A. Clark is John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Duke University. She is the author of numerous books, including Reading Renunciation: Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity and History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn.



Introduction


Crafts, Gilds, and Women in the Middle Ages: Fifty Years after



Women's Medical Practice and Health Care in Medieval Europe



Green Prostitution in the Medieval Canon Law



The Regulation of Brothels in Later Medieval England



Medieval Women Book Owners: Arbiters of Lay Piety and Ambassadors of Culture



The Ladies' Tournament: Marriage, Sex, and Honor in Thirteenth-Century Germany



A Female University Student in Late Medieval Krakï¿½w



The Conversion of Women to Ascetic Forms of Christianity



Women's Monastic Communities, 500-1100: Patterns of Expansion and Decline



The Origins of the Beguines



Creating and Recreating Communities of Women: The Case of Corpus Domini, Ferrara, 1406-1452



About the Contributors


Index