Intersections of Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages

by Beattie, Cordelia; Fenton, Kirsten A.

• ISBN13: 9780230579927
• ISBN10: 0230579922
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection of essays focuses attention on how medieval gender intersects with other categories of difference, particularly religion and ethnicity. It treats the period c.800-1500, with a particular focus on the era of the Gregorian reform movement, the First Crusade, and its linked attacks on Jews at home.

Author Biography

Cordelia Beattie is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is the author of Medieval Single Women: The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England and co-editor, with Anna Maslakovic, of The Medieval Household in Christian Europe, c.850-1550: Managing Power, Wealth and the Body. Kirsten A. Fenton is Honorary Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of St Andrews, UK. She is the author of Gender, Nation and Conquest in the Works of William of Malmesbury, and a number of articles that focus on ideas of medieval masculinity.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
List of Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: Gender, Power, and Difference	p. 1
'In what way can those who have left the world be distinguished?': Masculinity and the Difference between Carolingian Men	p. 12
Ruling Masculinities: From Adam to Apollonius of Tyre in Corpus 201b	p. 34
The Tears of Bishop Gundulf: Gender, Religion, and Emotion in the Late Eleventh Century	p. 62
Medieval Jewish/Christian Debate and the Question of Gender: Gilbert Crispin's Disputatio Iudei et Christiani	p. 85
Gender, Jewish Creditors, and Christian Debtors in Thirteenth-Century Exeter	p. 104
Gendering the First Crusade in William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum	p. 125
Prince Bohemond, Princess Melaz, and the Gendering of Religious Difference in the Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis	p. 140
Chaucer's Viragos: A Postcolonial Engagement? A Case Study of the Man of Law's Tale, the Monk's Tale, and the Knight's Tale	p. 158
Warriors, Amazons, and Isles of Women: Medieval Travel Writing and Constructions of Asian Femininities	p. 183
Index	p. 208
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