Suchergebnisse

Representing Medieval genders and sexualities in Europe : construction, transformation, and subversion, 600-1530 /Elizabeth L'Estrange and Alison More --'What, after all, is a male virgin?' Multiple performances of male virginity in Anglo-Saxon saints' lives /Cassandra Rhodes --Convergence, conversion, and transformation : gender and sanctity in thirteenth-century liège /Alison More --Constructing political rule, transforming gender scripts : revisiting the thirteenth-century rule of Joan and Margaret, countesses of Flanders /Francesca Canadé Sautman --Violence on vellum : St. Margaret's transgressive body and its audience /Jennifer Borland --'Pourquoy appellerions nous ces choses differentes, qu'une heure, un moment, un mouvement peuvent rendre du tout semblables?' : representing gender identity in the Late Medieval French querelle des femmes /Helen Swift --Constructing female sanctity in Late Medieval Naples : the funerary monument of Queen Sancia of Majorca /Aislinn Loconte --Deschi da parto and topsy-turvy gender relations in fifteenth-century Italian households /Elizabeth L'Estrange --Fashioning female humanist scholarship : self-representation in Laura Cereta's letters /Jennifer Cavalli --Mightier than the sword : reading, writing and noble masculinity in the early sixteenth century /Fiona S. Dunlop.

"This book is a history of East Central Europe since the late eighteenth century, the region of Europe between German central Europe and Russia in the East. Connelly argues the region, for which it is frequently hard to define exact boundaries and which is sometimes treated country-by-country in a way seemingly separate from the broader trends of European history, was one of shared experience despite most of the peoples being divided by linguistic, geographic, and political barriers. Beginning in the 1780s, an unwitting Habsburg monarch -- Joseph II -- decreed that his subjects would use only German, as he hoped to mould a common nationality using German over the disparate subjects. Instead, he unleashed the energies and struggle for the emergence of new nations that pitted small peoples armed with an idea against empires. The author argues that the underlying national self-assertion which emerged under imperial rule in the eighteen and nineteenth centuries shows deep connections to subsequent histories, to the creation of nation states of the regions after World War I, the failure of democratic rule in these states during the interwar years, the submersion of the region under Nazi then Soviet rule after 1939, and to the reinvention of sovereign states (and then the break up of two of them) after 1989. The book interconnects major themes and country histories for first time, chronicling this diverse region over many generations, from the time of Joseph, through democratic and socialist revolutions, genocide and Stalinism, through civil society movements struggling for liberal democracy, into our own day, when illiberal politicians come to power by exploiting very old fears."--

In this volume, the authors bring fresh approaches to the subject of royal and noble households in medieval and early modern Europe. The essays focus on the people of the highest social rank: the nuclear and extended royal family, their household attendants, noblemen and noblewomen as courtiers, and physicians. Themes include financial and administrative management, itinerant households, the household of an imprisoned noblewoman, blended households, and cultural influence. The essays are grounded in sources such as records of court ceremonial, economic records, letters, legal records, wills, and inventories. The authors employ a variety of methods, including prosopography, economic history, visual analysis, network analysis, and gift exchange, and the collection is engaged with current political, sociological, anthropological, gender, and feminist theories