Gendering the Middle Ages A Gender and History Special Issue

by Stafford, Pauline; Mulder-Bakker, Anneke B.

• ISBN13: 9780631226512
• ISBN10: 0631226516
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-21
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book brings together a group of leading historians of the European middle ages. It ranges widely from the late Antique/Medieval transition to the early sixteenth century. Nine essays and four thematic reviews cover such topics as memory, sanctity, nunneries, the transformation of the Roman world, the Black Death, canon law, the Christian challenge to late Antique masculinity, the transmission of knowledge, visionaries' childhoods, late medieval courts, Byzantine coinage, the Norman Conquest of southern Italy and the proceedings of the Papal penitentiary.

Author Biography

Pauline Stafford is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Liverpool and the author of Queen Emma and Queen Edith: queenship and women's power in eleventh-century England (Blackwell, 1997) and Queens, concubines, and dowagers: the king's wife in the early Middle Ages (2nd edn., 1998).

Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker is senior lecturer in Medieval History and Medieval Studies at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands). She has published on historiographical and hagiographical topics, including Sanctity and Motherhood (1995) and is presently working on a book on female anchorites (recluses) in the Low Countries.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
Pauline Stafford
Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker
The Gender of Grace: Impotence, Servitude, and Manliness in the Fifth-Century West	6	(16)
Kate Cooper
Conrad Leyser
Did Women Have a Transformation of the Roman World?	22	(20)
Julia M. H. Smith
The Gender of Money: Byzantine Empresses on Coins (324-802)	42	(23)
Leslie Brubaker
Helen Tobler
`Ex utroque sexu fidelium tres ordines' - The Status of Women in Early Medieval Canon Law	65	(27)
Eva M. Synek
`Halt! Be Men!': Sikelgaita of Salerno, Gender and the Norman Conquest of Southern Italy	92	(20)
Patricia Skinner
The Metamorphosis of Woman: Transmission of Knowledge and the Problems of Gender	112	(23)
Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker
Visions of My Youth: Representations of the Childhood of Medieval Visionaries	135	(20)
Rosalynn Voaden
Stephanie Volf
Female Petitioners in the Papal Penitentiary	155	(19)
Ludwing Schmugge
Gendering Princely Dynasties: Some Notes on Family Structure, Social Networks, and Communication at the Courts of the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach around 1500	174	(18)
Cordula Nolte
Thematic Reviews
Gender, Memory and Social Power	192	(13)
Janet L. Nelson
Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe 900-1200 (1999); Lynda Garland, Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204 (1999)
Elisabeth van Houts
Gender and Sanctity in the Middle Ages	205	(10)
Katherine J. Lewis
Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender: Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography (1998); Catherine M. Mooney (ed.), Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and their Interpreters (1999)
John Kitchen
Gendering the Black Death: Women in Later Medieval England	215	(10)
S. H. Rigby
Daughters, Wives and Widows after the Black Death: Women in Sussex, 1350-1535 (1998)
Mavis E. Mate
Nunneries, Communities and the Revaluation of Domesticity	225	(8)
Felicity Riddy
Medieval Women in Their Communities (1997); Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent (1997); Marilyn Oliva, The Convent and the Community in Late Medieval England: Female Monasteries in the Diocese of Norwich, 1350-1540 (1998)
Diane Watt
Notes on Contributors	233	(2)
Index	235