Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

by Cassidy-Welch, Megan; Sherlock, Peter

• ISBN13: 9782503523361
• ISBN10: 2503523366
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-15
• Publisher: Isd

Summary

This collection argues that gender must be considered as both an approach to history, and as a reflection of the deep workings of the lived, historical past. The sixteen original essays explore social and cultural expressions of gender in Europe from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. They examine theories and practices of gender in domestic, religious, and political contexts, including the Reformation, the convent, the workplace, witchcraft, the household, literacy, the arts, intellectual spheres, and cultures of violence and memory. The volume exposes the myriad ways in which gender was actually experienced, together with the strategies used by individual men and women to negotiate resilient patriarchal structures. Overall, the collection opens up new synergies for thinking about gender as a category of historical analysis and as a set of experiences central to late medieval and early modern Europe.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Gender Theory and the Study of Early-Modern Europe	p. 7
Pushing the Boundaries: Argula von Grumbach as a Lutheran Laywoman, 1492-1556/7	p. 25
A Woman's Path to Literary: The Letters of Margherita Datini, 1384-1410	p. 43
Convent Culture in Early-Modern Italy: Laywomen and Religious Subversiveness in a Neapolitan Convent	p. 57
Gender, Hybridity, and Violence on the Frontiers of Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Ireland	p. 77
The Queen's Three Bodies: Gender, Criminality, and Sovereignty in the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots	p. 99
The Royal Art of Conjugal Discord: A Satirical Double Portrait of Francis I and Eleanor of Austria	p. 117
Engendering Lust in Early-Modern Italy: Pisanello's Luxuria	p. 137
Cornelius Agrippa's School of Love: Teaching Plato's Symposium at the Renaissance University	p. 151
'The richest man in Italy': Aldo Manuzio and the Value of Male Friendships	p. 177
Women, Work, and Power in the Female Guilds of Rouen	p. 199
Textile Workers, Gender, and the Organization of Production in the Pre-Industrial Dutch Republic	p. 215
Charitable Bodies: Clothing as Charity in Early-Modern Rural England	p. 235
Commemorating a Mortal Goddess: Maria Salviati de' Medici and the Cultural Politics of Duke Cosimo I	p. 261
Patriarchal Memory: Monuments in Early-Modern England	p. 279
Agency, Women, and Witchcraft in Early-Modern England: Rye, 1607-11	p. 301
Reflecting and Creating Gender in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Europe	p. 317
List of Contributors	p. 327
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