Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art

Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art
Author: Carlee A. Bradbury
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2017-11-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3319650491

This collection examines gender and Otherness as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting up-and-coming and established scholars, explore both iconographic and stylistic similarities deployed to construct gender identity. The text analyzes a vast array of medieval artworks, including Dieric Bouts’s Justice of Otto III, Albrecht Dürer’s Feast of the Rose Garland, Rembrandt van Rijn’s Naked Woman Seated on a Mound, and Renaissance-era transi tombs of French women to illuminate medieval and early modern ideas about gender identity, poverty, religion, honor, virtue, sexuality, and motherhood, among others.

Women and Gender in Medieval Europe

Women and Gender in Medieval Europe
Author: Margaret C. Schaus
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 985
Release: 2006-09-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135459606

From women's medicine and the writings of Christine de Pizan to the lives of market and tradeswomen and the idealization of virginity, gender and social status dictated all aspects of women's lives during the middle ages. A cross-disciplinary resource, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe examines the daily reality of medieval women from all walks of life in Europe between 450 CE and 1500 CE, i.e., from the fall of the Roman Empire to the discovery of the Americas. Moving beyond biographies of famous noble women of the middles ages, the scope of this important reference work is vast and provides a comprehensive understanding of medieval women's lives and experiences. Masculinity in the middle ages is also addressed to provide important context for understanding women's roles. Entries that range from 250 words to 4,500 words in length thoroughly explore topics in the following areas: · Art and Architecture · Countries, Realms, and Regions · Daily Life · Documentary Sources · Economics · Education and Learning · Gender and Sexuality · Historiography · Law · Literature · Medicine and Science · Music and Dance · Persons · Philosophy · Politics · Political Figures · Religion and Theology · Religious Figures · Social Organization and Status Written by renowned international scholars, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe is the latest in the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages. Easily accessible in an A-to-Z format, students, researchers, and scholars will find this outstanding reference work to be an invaluable resource on women in Medieval Europe.

Conceiving Identities

Conceiving Identities
Author: Kathryn M. Kueny
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 143844785X

Explores how medieval Muslim theologians constructed a female gender identity based on an ideal of maternity and how women contested it. Conceiving Identities explores how medieval Muslim theologians appropriate a woman’s reproductive power to construct a female gender identity in which maternity is a central component. Through a close analysis of seventh- through fourteenth-century exegetical works, medical treatises, legal pronouncements, historiographies, zoologies, and other literary materials, this study considers how medieval Muslim scholars map the female reproductive body according to broader, cosmological schemes to generate a woman’s role as “mother.” By close consideration of folk medicine and magic, this book also reveals how medieval women contest the traditional maternal identities imagined for them and thereby reinvent themselves as mothers and Muslims. This innovative examination of the discourse and practices surrounding maternity forges new ground as it takes up the historical and epistemic construction of medieval Muslim women’s identities.

Imagined Communities: Constructing Collective Identities in Medieval Europe

Imagined Communities: Constructing Collective Identities in Medieval Europe
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004363793

Imagined Communities: Constructing Collective Identities in Medieval Europe offers a series of studies focusing on the problems of conceptualisation of social group identities, including national, royal, aristocratic, regional, urban, religious, and gendered communities. The geographical focus of the case studies presented in this volume range from Wales and Scotland, to Hungary and Ruthenia, while both narrative and other types of evidence, such as legal texts, are drawn upon. What emerges is how the characteristics and aspirations of communities are exemplified and legitimised through the presentation of the past and an imagined picture of present. By means of its multiple perspectives, this volume offers significant insight into the medieval dynamics of collective mentality and group consciousness. Contributors are Dániel Bagi, Mariusz Bartnicki, Zbigniew Dalewski, Georg Jostkleigrewe, Bartosz Klusek, Paweł Kras, Wojciech Michalski, Martin Nodl, Andrzej Pleszczyński, Euryn Rhys Roberts, Stanisław Rosik, Joanna Sobiesiak, Karol Szejgiec, Michał Tomaszek, Tomasz Tarczyński, Przemysław Tyszka, Tatiana Vilkul, and Przemysław Wiszewski.

Gender and Voice in Medieval French Literature and Song

Gender and Voice in Medieval French Literature and Song
Author: Rachel May Golden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2021
Genre: LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN: 9780813069036

This volume brings together literary and musical compositions of medieval France, identifying the use of voice in these works as a way of articulating gendered identities.

Grief, Gender, and Identity in the Middle Ages

Grief, Gender, and Identity in the Middle Ages
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2021-12-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004499695

Examines depictions of grief in the Middle Ages by exploring how grief relates to gender and identity, as well as how men and women perform grief within the various constructions of both gender and grief established by medieval culture.

Women Readers and Writers in Medieval Iberia

Women Readers and Writers in Medieval Iberia
Author: Montserrat Piera
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2019-08-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004406492

This book is devoted to medieval Iberian women, readers and writers. Focusing on the stories and texts women heard, visually experienced or read, and the stories that they rewrote, the work explores women’s experiences and cultural practices and their efforts to make sense of their place within their familial networks and communities. The study is based on two methodological and interpretive threads: a new paradigm to represent premodern reading and, a study of women’s writing, or, more precisely, women’s textualities, as a process of creating words but also acts, social practices, emotions and, ultimately, affectus, understood here as the embodiment of the ability to affect and be affected.

Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England

Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England
Author: E. Amanda McVitty
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2020
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783275553

Groundbreaking new approach to the idea of treason in medieval England, showing the profound effect played by gender.

Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition

Constructions of Feminine Identity in the Catholic Tradition
Author: Christopher M. Flavin
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2020-01-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781498592727

Examining texts from the beginning of the Christian era through the Renaissance, the author demonstrates that the performative role of women writers is critical to understanding the place of the individual in the broader Catholic intellectual tradition in the Anglophone world.