Intersections of gender, religion and ethnicity in the Middle Ages [electronic resource] / edited by Cordelia Beattie, Kirsten A. Fenton.

9780230297562 (electronic bk.)
9780230579927

Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

English

1 online resource (x, 220 p.)

HQ1075 .I58 2011eb

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. This volume advances the study of medieval gender, which in recent years has started to pay more attention to how gender intersects with other categories of difference, particularly sexuality but also religion and ethnicity, which are closely connected. It considers these intersections through a number of case studies from the years c. 800--1500, with a particular focus on c.1050--1150. This was a time of much debate about the renewed emphasis on clerical chastity and its implications for the relationship between gender, sexuality, and authority. It was also the era of the First Crusade and its linked attacks on Jews at home. Each chapter in the volume suggests new ways of looking at key topics and debates, including the Herrenfrage, Orientalism, and postcolonial theory.

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Genders and sexualities in history.

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