Creating Women Prehistory Through The Middle Ages

Author : Jean Gould Bryant
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780137596225
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating Women: Prehistory through the Middle Ages written by Jean Gould Bryant and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Women is a rich, interdisciplinary, two-volume anthology of primary source material examining women's participation in and contributions to western culture over the centuries. It documents prevalent concepts of the nature of women and women's roles and status in diverse cultures, geographic locations, and periods of western civilization. Narrative framework, biographical vignettes, and introductions to documents carefully place women and their achievements within the social context in which they lived and worked.

Author : Jean Gould Bryant
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780137596225
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating Women: Prehistory through the Middle Ages written by Jean Gould Bryant and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2005 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Women is a rich, interdisciplinary, two-volume anthology of primary source material examining women's participation in and contributions to western culture over the centuries. It documents prevalent concepts of the nature of women and women's roles and status in diverse cultures, geographic locations, and periods of western civilization. Narrative framework, biographical vignettes, and introductions to documents carefully place women and their achievements within the social context in which they lived and worked.

Author : Katharina M. Wilson
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in the Middle Ages: A-J written by Katharina M. Wilson and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2004 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The encyclopedia covers the myriad, experiences, and contributions of women in de medieval world.

Author : Kay Eastwood
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780778713463
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Girls in the Middle Ages written by Kay Eastwood and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and Girls in the Middle Ages shows the roles and duties of women and girls of the nobility and peasantry, and the choices they had. Special emphasis on medieval dress and beauty, women of power, and women of other lands during the same period in history.

Author : Georges Duby
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Women in the West: Silences of the Middle Ages written by Georges Duby and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the legal, social, and religious position of women in the Greco-Roman world, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, and modern era.

Author : Shulamith Shahar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134394209
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fourth Estate written by Shulamith Shahar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did women really constitute a `fourth estate' in medieval society and, if so, in what sense? In this wide-ranging study Shulamith Shahar considers this and the whole question of the varying attitudes to women and their status in western Europe between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries.

Author : Kim M. Phillips
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350995827
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages written by Kim M. Phillips and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Christopher Mielke
Publisher : Trivent Publishing
ISBN 13 : 6158122238
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Same Bodies, Different Women written by Christopher Mielke and published by Trivent Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of essays focusing on marginalized women mostly in Central and Eastern Europe from around 1350 to 1650. "Other" women are discussed in three different categories: women whose religious practices put them on the social margins, "common women" who are in society but not of society because they are in the sex trade, and women whose occupations were reason enough to shunt them. In order to fill a gap in gender history for countries east of the Rhine River, the studies included present how official city-funded brothels in medieval Austria worked, how a princess' disability affected her life as Byzantine empress, how one unmarried Transylvanian woman who got pregnant dealt with being the center of a court case, and how enslaved women in medieval Hungary were treated as sexual property. The hope with this volume is that it will show the many interdisciplinary ways that women on the margins can be studied in this region, and to diminish the taboo of discussing this topic to begin with.

Author : Frances Gies
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062016571
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in the Middle Ages written by Frances Gies and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissued for the first time in decades, this ambitious work of Medieval scholarship by bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies traces the stories and fates of women in Medieval Europe over the course of a millennium. Medieval history is often written as a series of battles and territorial shifts. But the essential contributions of women during this period have been too often relegated to the dustbin of history. In Women in the Middle Ages, Frances and Joseph Gies reclaim this lost history, in a lively historical survey that charts the evolution of women’s roles throughout the period, and profiles eight individual women in depth. We learn of Hildegarde of Bingen, an abbess who was a noted composer and founded two monasteries; of Eleanor de Montfort, a 13th century Princess of Wales who was captured by Edward I and held as a political prisoner for three years; and women of somewhat more modest means, such as the spouse of an Italian merchant, and a peasant’s wife. Drawing upon their various stories, talented historians Frances and Joseph Gies—whose books were used by George R.R. Martin in his research for Game of Thrones—offer a kaleidoscopic view of the lives of women throughout this tumultuous period. “A wealth of solid information.” –New York Times

Author : Emilie Amt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134720602
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Lives in Medieval Europe written by Emilie Amt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the first edition: 'It is difficult to imagine another book in which one could find all this diverse material, and no doubt Amt's collection, in its richness, and in its genuine clarity and simplicity will takes prominent place in our expanded, diversified medieval curriculum, a curriculum that takes class, gender, and ethnicity as central to an understanding of world cultural history.' - The Medieval Review Long considered to be a definitive and truly groundbreaking collection of sources, Women’s Lives in Medieval Europe uniquely presents the everyday lives and experiences of women in the Middle Ages. This indispensible text has now been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect new research, and includes previously unavailable source material. This new edition includes expanded sections on marriage and sexuality, and on peasant women and townswomen, as well as a new section on women and the law. There are brief introductions both to the period and to the individual documents, study questions to accompany each reading, a glossary of terms and a fully updated bibliography. Working within a multi-cultural framework, the book focuses not just on the Christian majority, but also present material about women in minority groups in Europe, such as Jews, Muslims, and those considered to be heretics. Incorporating both the laws, regulations and religious texts that shaped the way women lived their lives, and personal narratives by and about medieval women, the book is unique in examining women’s lives through the lens of daily activities, and in doing so as far as possible through the voices of women themselves.