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Gender in the early medieval world : East and West, 300-900
- Title
- Gender in the early medieval world : East and West, 300-900 / edited by Leslie Brubaker and Julia M.H. Smith.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Description
- xi, 333 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Other contributors
- Brubaker, Leslie. Smith, Julia M. H.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index. Paperback.
- Contents
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- Introduction : Gendering the early medieval world / Julia M.H. Smith
- Gender and ethnicity in the early Middle Ages / Walter Pohl
- Clothes maketh the man : power dressing and elite masculinity in the later Roman world / Mary Harlow
- Social transformation, gender transformation? The court eunuch, 300-900 / Shaun Tougher
- Sex, lies and textuality : the Secret history of Prokopios and the rhetoric of gender in sixth-century Byzantium / Leslie Brubaker
- Romance and reality in the Byzantine bride shows / Martha Vinson
- Men, women and slaves in Abbasid society / Julia Bray
- Gender and politics in the harem of al-Muqtadir / Nadia Maria El Cheikh
- Dressing conservatively : women's brooches as markers of ethnic identity? / Bonnie Effros
- Gendering courts in the early medieval west / Janet L. Nelson
- Men, women and liturgical practice in the early medieval west / Gisela Muschiol
- Gender and the patronage of culture in Merovingian Gaul / Yitzhak Hen
- Genealogy defined by women : the case of the Pippinids / Ian Wood
- Bride shows revisited : praise, slander and exegesis in the reign of the empress Judith / Mayke de Jong
- 'What is the Word if not semen?' Priestly bodies in Carolingian exegesis / Lynda Coon
- Negotiating gender, family and status in Anglo-Saxon burial practices, c. 600-950 / Dawn Hadley.
- Kinsey subjects
- Women history--Europe--Dark ages. Gender role identification. Men--Europe--Dark ages.
- ISBN
- 0521813476 0521013275 (pbk.)