A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages
In: The Cultural Histories Series
15 Ergebnisse
Sortierung:
In: The Cultural Histories Series
In: The Middle Ages series
In: Themes in History
In: Themes in History Ser. v.11
Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past. Before the 'invention' of sexuality, erotic acts and desires were comprehended as species of sin, expressions of idealised love, courtship, and marriage, or components of intimacies between men or women, not as outworkings of an innermost self. With a focus on c. 1100–c. 1800, this book explores the shifting meanings, languages, and practices of western sex. It is the first study to combine the medieval and early modern to rethink this time of sex before sexuality, where same-sex and opposite-sex desire and eroticism bore but faint traces of what moderns came to call heterosexuality, homosexuality, lesbianism, and pornography.This volume aims to contribute to contemporary historical theory through paying attention to the particularity of premodern sexual cultures. Phillips and Reay argue that students of premodern sex will be blocked in their understanding if they use terms and concepts applicable to sexuality since the late nineteenth century, and modern commentators will never know their subject without a deeper comprehension of sex's history.
In: A cultural history of women v. 2
"The medieval era has been described as 'the 'Age of Chivalry' and 'the Age of Faith' but also as 'the Dark Ages'. Medieval women have often been viewed as subject to a punishing misogyny which limited their legal rights and economic activities, but some scholars have claimed they enjoyed a 'rough and ready equality' with men. The contrasting figures of Eve and the Virgin Mary loom over historians' interpretations of the period 1000-1500. Yet a wealth of recent historiography goes behind these conventional motifs, showing how medieval women's lives were shaped by status, age, life-stage, geography and religion as well as by gender. A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages presents essays on medieval women's life cycle, bodies and sexuality, religion and popular beliefs, medicine and disease, public and private realms, education and work, power, and artistic representation to illustrate the diversity of medieval women's lives and constructions of femininity."--Bloomsbury Publishing
In: Manchester medieval studies
In: History workshop journal: HWJ, Band 87, S. 271-282
ISSN: 1477-4569
In: Social history, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 430-431
ISSN: 1470-1200
In: Postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 83-101
ISSN: 2040-5979
In: Gender & history, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 498-499
ISSN: 1468-0424
In: Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient: Journal d'histoire économique et sociale de l'orient, Band 53, Heft 3, S. 506-512
ISSN: 1568-5209
In: Medieval feminist forum: MFF ; journal of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, Band 45, S. 185-187
ISSN: 2151-6073
In: Gender & history, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 22-42
ISSN: 1468-0424
In: Continuity and change: a journal of social structure, law and demography in past societies, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 171-172
ISSN: 1469-218X
In: Themes in history
"Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past. Before the 'invention' of sexuality, erotic acts and desires were comprehended as species of sin, expressions of idealised love, courtship, and marriage, or components of intimacies between men or women, not as outworkings of an innermost self. With a focus on c. 1100-c. 1800, this book explores the shifting meanings, languages, and practices of western sex. It is the first study to combine the medieval and early modern to rethink this time of sex before sexuality, where same-sex and opposite-sex desire and eroticism bore but faint traces of what moderns came to call heterosexuality, homosexuality, lesbianism, and pornography. This volume aims to contribute to contemporary historical theory through paying attention to the particularity of premodern sexual cultures. Phillips and Reay argue that students of premodern sex will be blocked in their understanding if they use terms and concepts applicable to sexuality since the late nineteenth century, and modern commentators will never know their subject without a deeper comprehension of sex's history"--Publisher description.