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By Sharon Farmer,Carol Braun Pasternack

ISBN-10: 0816638934

ISBN-13: 9780816638932

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ISBN-13: 9780816638949

not anything below a rethinking of what we suggest after we discuss "men" and "women" of the medieval interval, this quantity demonstrates how the belief of gender-in the center a while not less than now-intersected in refined and complicated methods with different different types of distinction. Responding to the insights of postcolonial and feminist thought, the authors convey that medieval identities emerged via transferring paradigms-that fluidity, clash, and contingency characterised not just gender, but additionally sexuality, social prestige, and faith. This view emerges via essays that delve right into a big choice of cultures and draw on a wide diversity of disciplinary and theoretical ways. students within the fields of historical past in addition to literary and spiritual reviews ponder gendered hierarchies in western Christian, Jewish, Byzantine, and Islamic parts of the medieval world.

Contributors: Daniel Boyarin, Ruth Mazo Karras, Mathew Kuefler, Martha Newman, Kathryn M. Ringrose, Elizabeth Robertson, Everett Rowson, Michael Uebel, Ulrike Wiethaus.

Sharon Farmer is professor of background, and Carol Braun Pasternack is affiliate professor of English, either on the college of California, Santa Barbara.

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