{"product_id":"gender-in-the-early-medieval-world-east-and-west-300-900-paperback-9780521013277","title":"Gender in the Early Medieval World; East and West, 300–900 (Paperback) 9780521013277","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGender in the Early Medieval World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEast and West, 300–900\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book analyses changes in gender pattern to examine early medieval European culture and society.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLeslie Brubaker (Edited by), Julia M. H. Smith (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521013277, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 11 November 2004\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e346 pages, 15 b\/w illus.  2 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.7 x 15.3 x 2 cm, 0.49 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Gender in the Early Medieval World brings together a collection of sixteen essays that place gender at the centre of discussions about politics, economics, religious practices, family and life rituals, in addition to more obvious gender questions about individual identity. This list shows the collection engages with a wide range of topics, but more than that, it indicates the editors' convincing view that gender is not just about sexual identity. This collection of essays convincingly shows that the field of gender studies is a fruitful one.'  The German History Society\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eGender analysis is one of the most probing ways to understand both power and cultural strategies in pre-industrial societies. In this book, sixteen scholars on the cutting edges of their disciplines explore the ideas and expressions of gender that characterised the centuries from c.300 to 900 in milieux ranging from York to Baghdad, via Rome and Constantinople. Deploying a variety of disciplines and perspectives, they draw on the evidence of material culture as well as texts to demonstrate the wide range of gender identities that informed the social, political and imaginary worlds of these centuries. The essays make clear that the fixed point in the gender systems of the period was constituted by the hegemonic masculinity of the ruling elite, marginalised groups often invisible as historical subjects in their own right were omnipresent in, and critical to, the gendered discourses which buttressed assertions of power.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction Julia M. H. Smith\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Gender in Late antique, Byzantine and Islamic Societies: 2. Gender and ethnicity in the early middle ages Walter Pohl\u003cbr\u003e 3. Clothes maketh the man: power dressing and elite masculinity in the later roman world Mary Harlow\u003cbr\u003e 4. Social transformation, gender transformation: the court eunuch, 300–900 Shaun Tougher\u003cbr\u003e 5. Sex, lies and textuality: the secret history of Prokopios and the rhetoric of gender in sixth-century Byzantium Leslie Brubaker\u003cbr\u003e 6. Romance and reality in the Byzantine brideshows Martha Vinson\u003cbr\u003e 7. Men, women and slaves in Abbasid society Julia Bray\u003cbr\u003e 8. Gender and politics in the harem of al-Muqtadir Nadia Maria El Cheikh\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Gender in Germanic Studies: 9. Dressing conservatively: women's brooches as markers of ethnic identity? Bonnie Effros\u003cbr\u003e 10. Gendering courts in the early medieval west Janet L. Nelson\u003cbr\u003e 11. Men, women and liturgical practice in the early medieval west Gisela Muschiol\u003cbr\u003e 12. Gender and the patronage of culture in Merovingian Gaul Yitzhak Hen\u003cbr\u003e 13. Genealogy defined by women: the case of the Pippinids Ian Wood\u003cbr\u003e 14. Brideshows revisited: praise, slander and exegesis in the reign of the Empress Judith Mayke de Jong\u003cbr\u003e 15. 'What is the word if not semen?' Priestly bodies in Carolingian exegesis Lynda Coon\u003cbr\u003e 16. Negotiating gender, family and status in Anglo-Saxon burial practices, c.600–950 Dawn Hadley\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Gender studies: women [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Gender studies: women\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Gender%20studies:%20women%20%5BJFSJ1%5D%22\"\u003eJFSJ1\u003c\/a\u003e], Gender studies, gender groups [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Gender studies, gender groups\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Gender%20studies,%20gender%20groups%20%5BJFSJ%5D%22\"\u003eJFSJ\u003c\/a\u003e], Early history: c 500 to c 1450\/1500 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early history: c 500 to c 1450\/1500\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20history:%20c%20500%20to%20c%201450\/1500%20%5BHBLC%5D%22\"\u003eHBLC\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45909064352024,"sku":"9780521013277","price":35.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521013277i_4f1d8338-59d8-497f-9c22-689d7333d5d8.jpg?v=1691376672","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/gender-in-the-early-medieval-world-east-and-west-300-900-paperback-9780521013277","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}