Gender in the early medieval world : east and west, 300-900 /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. |
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| Description: | xi, 333 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5542979 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. Gender in Late antique, Byzantine and Islamic Societies
- 2. Gender and ethnicity in the early middle ages
- 3. Clothes maketh the man: power dressing and elite masculinity in the later roman world
- 4. Social transformation, gender transformation: the court eunuch, 300-900
- 5. Sex, lies and textuality: the secret history of Prokopios and the rhetoric of gender in sixth-century Byzantium
- 6. Romance and reality in the Byzantine brideshows
- 7. Men, women and slaves in Abbasid society
- 8. Gender and politics in the harem of al-Muqtadir
- Part II. Gender in Germanic Studies
- 9. Dressing conservatively: women's brooches as markers of ethnic identity?
- 10. Gendering courts in the early medieval west
- 11. Men, women and liturgical patronage of culture in Merovingian
- 13. Genealogy defined by women: the case of the Pippinids
- 14. Brideshows revisited: praise, slander and exegesis in the reign of the Empres
- 15. 'What is the word if not semen?' Priestly bodies in Carolingian exegesis
- 16. Negotiating gender, family and status in Anglo-Saxon burial practices, c. 600-950
