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UNINA9910265244803321 |
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Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain |
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Descrizione fisica |
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United Kingdom, Great Britain |
c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) |
c 1945 to c 1960 |
c 1960 to c 1970 |
c 1970 to c 1980 |
c 1980 to c 1990 |
c 1990 to c 2000 |
21st century |
European history |
History of ideas |
History of science |
English |
History of engineering & technology |
c 1700 to c 1800 |
c 1800 to c 1900 |
20th century |
c 1900 - c 1914 |
c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1) |
c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period) |
c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
United Kingdom, Great Britain |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It combines, for the first time, two perspectives with much to say about Britain since the industrial revolution: the history of technology and environmental history. Technologies are modified environments, just as nature is to varying extents engineered. Furthermore, technologies and our living and non-living environment are both predominant material forms of organisation – and self-organisation – that surround and make us. Both have changed over time, in intersecting ways. Technologies discussed in the collection include bulldozers, submarine cables, automobiles, flood barriers, medical devices, museum displays and biotechnologies. Environments investigated include bogs, cities, farms, places of natural beauty and pollution, land and sea. The book explores this diversity but also offers an integrated framework for understanding these intersections. |
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UNINA9910782971303321 |
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Autore |
Bloch R. Howard |
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Medieval misogyny and the invention of Western romantic love / / R. Howard Bloch |
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Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 1991 |
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1-282-06958-6 |
9786612069581 |
0-226-05990-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 298 pages) |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series) |
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Love - History |
Misogyny - Europe - History |
Patriarchy - Europe - History |
Social history - Medieval, 500-1500 |
Women - History - Middle Ages, 500-1500 |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-290) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Molestiae Nuptiarum and the Yahwist Creation -- 2. Early Christianity and the Estheticization ofGender -- 3. "Devil's Gateway" and "Bride ofChrist" -- 4. The Poetics of Virginity -- 5. The Old French Lay and the Myriad Modes ofMale Indiscretion -- 6. The Love Lyric and the Paradox ofPerfection -- 7. Heiresses and Dowagers: The Power ofWomen to Dispose -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from-or antidote to-ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are. Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the Christian construction of gender in which the flesh is feminized, the feminine is aestheticized, and aesthetics are condemned in theological terms. Tracing the underlying theme of virginity from the Church Fathers to the courtly poets, Bloch establishes the continuity between early Christian antifeminism and the idealization of woman that emerged in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In conclusion he explains the likely social, economic, and legal causes for the seeming inversion of the terms of misogyny into those of an idealizing tradition of love that exists alongside its earlier avatar until the current era. This startling study will be of great value to students of medieval literature as well as to historians of culture and gender. |
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