Gender Issues in the Art of the Middle Ages
In: Medieval Feminist Newsletter, Band 25, S. 46-49
ISSN: 2154-4042
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In: Medieval Feminist Newsletter, Band 25, S. 46-49
ISSN: 2154-4042
In: History workshop: a journal of socialist and feminist historians, Band 33, Heft 1, S. 162-175
ISSN: 1477-4569
When a Spanish monk struggled to find the right words to convey his unjust expulsion from a monastery in a desperate petition to a sixth-century king, he likened himself to an aborted fetus. Centuries later, a ninth-century queen found herself accused of abortion in an altogether more fleshly sense. Abortion haunts the written record across the early middle ages. Yet, the centuries after the fall of Rome remain very much the "dark ages" in the broader history of abortion. This book, the first to treat the subject in this period, tells the story of how individuals and communities, ecclesiastical and secular authorities, construed abortion as a social and moral problem across a number of post-Roman societies, including Visigothic Spain, Merovingian Gaul, early Ireland, Anglo-Saxon England and the Carolingian empire. It argues early medieval authors and readers actively deliberated on abortion and a cluster of related questions, and that church tradition on abortion was an evolving practice. It sheds light on the neglected variety of responses to abortion generated by different social and intellectual practices, including church discipline, dispute settlement and strategies of political legitimation, and brings the history of abortion into conversation with key questions about gender, sexuality, Christianization, penance and law. Ranging across abortion miracles in hagiography, polemical letters in which churchmen likened rivals to fetuses flung from the womb of the church and uncomfortable imaginings of resurrected fetuses in theological speculation, this volume also illuminates the complex cultural significance of abortion in early medieval societies. Zubin Mistry is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Band 18, Heft 5, S. 585-609
ISSN: 0304-2421
Black Legacies looks at color-based prejudice in medieval and modern texts in order to reveal key similarities. Bringing far-removed time periods into startling conversation, this book argues that certain attitudes and practices present in Europe's Middle Ages were foundational in the development of the western concept of race. Using historical, literary, and artistic sources, Lynn Ramey shows that twelfth- and thirteenth-century discourse was preoccupied with skin color and the coding of black as "evil" and white as "good." Ramey demonstrates that fears of miscegenation show up in all medieval European societies. She pinpoints these same ideas in the rhetoric of later centuries. Mapmakers and travel writers of the colonial era used medieval lore of "monstrous peoples" to question the humanity of indigenous New World populations, and medieval arguments about humanness were employed to justify the slave trade. Ramey even analyzes how race is explored in films set in medieval Europe, revealing an enduring fascination with the Middle Ages as a touchstone for processing and coping with racial conflict in the West today.
In: Accounting and Culture Review, 23 April 2018 - Special Issue: Banks and Financial Institutions in Historical Perspective, Forthcoming
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In: London Record Society publications 38
In: Austrian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, S. 45-48
In: The senses & society, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 367-373
ISSN: 1745-8927
In: Washington report on Middle East affairs, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 62
ISSN: 8755-4917
In: Journal of church and state: JCS, Band 43, Heft 3, S. 632
ISSN: 0021-969X
In: The journal of popular culture: the official publication of the Popular Culture Association, Band IV, Heft 4, S. 920-932
ISSN: 1540-5931
In: A journal of church and state: JCS, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 111-131
ISSN: 2040-4867