LEADER 04385oam 2200685I 450 001 9910462687803321 005 20210803131339.0 010 $a0-203-11060-9 010 $a1-299-16097-2 010 $a1-136-27539-8 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203110607 035 $a(CKB)2670000000331453 035 $a(EBL)1128302 035 $a(OCoLC)829461183 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000821964 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11437060 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000821964 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10752563 035 $a(PQKB)10928674 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1128302 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1128302 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10660693 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL447347 035 $a(OCoLC)828424190 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000331453 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aGender in late medieval and early modern Europe /$fedited by Marianna G. Muravyeva and Raisa Maria Tovio 210 1$aNew York, N.Y. :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (253 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge research in gender and history ;$v14 225 0$aRoutledge research in gender and history ;$v14 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-92069-X 311 $a0-415-53723-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aList of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: why and how gender matters? / Marianna Muravyeva and Raisa Maria Toivo -- Historiography and the politics of gender -- From women's oppression to male anxiety : the concept of "patriarchy" in the historiography of early modern Europe / Androniki Dialeti -- The metaphysics of gender in Christine de Pizan's thought / Ilse Paakkinen -- "That women are but men's shadows" : examining gender, violence and criminality in early modern Britain / Anne-Marie Kilday -- Female spirituality, religion and gender identities -- A good wife : demonic possession and discourses of gender in later medieval culture / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa -- Between martyrdom and everyday pragmatism : gender, family, and anabaptism in early modern Germany / Pivi Risnen -- Women's sexuality between legal prescription and ecclesiastical control in the Romanian principalities in the 18th century / Constanta Vintila-Gitulesku -- Gendered witches and Nordic patriarchal compromises -- Women, witches, and the town courts of Ribe : ideas of the gendered witch in early modern Denmark / Louise Nyholm Kallestrup -- Male witches and masculinity in early modern Finnish witchcraft trials / Raisa Maria Toivo -- Gendering moral crimes in early modern England and Europe : blasphemy the mirror image of witchcraft / David Nash -- Laws, genders and deviancies -- Gendered suicide in early modern Sweden and Finland / Riikka Miettinen -- The responsibility of a seducer : men and the breach of promise in early modern Swedish legislation / Mari Vimki -- Personalizing homosexuality and masculinity in early modern Russia / Marianna Muravyeva / Contributors -- Notes -- Index. 330 $aThis project is an attempt to challenge the canonical gender concept while trying to specify what gender was in the medieval and early modern world. Despite the emphasis on individual, identity and difference that past research claims, much of this history still focuses on hierarchical or dichotomous paring of masculinity and femininity (or male and female). The emphasis on differences has been largely based on the research of such topics as premarital sex, religious deviance, rape and violence; these are topics that were, in the early modern society, criminal or at least easily marginalizi 410 0$aRoutledge Research in Gender and History 606 $aGender identity$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aWomen$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aMen$zEurope$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGender identity$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen$xHistory. 615 0$aMen$xHistory. 676 $a305.3 701 $aMuravyeva$b Marianna$0849393 701 $aTovio$b Raisa Maria$0966080 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462687803321 996 $aGender in late medieval and early modern Europe$92192388 997 $aUNINA