(Ebook) Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe 1st edition by Marianna Muravyeva, Raisa Maria Toivo 1136275388 9781136275388

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ISBN-10 :  1136275388 

ISBN-13 :  9781136275388

Author:  Marianna Muravyeva, Raisa Maria Toivo 

This 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 marginalizing. The central focus of the book is to test, verify and challenge the methodology and use the concept(s) of gender specifically applicable to the period of great change and transition. The volume contains two theoretical sections supplemented by case-studies of gender through specific practices such as mysticism, witchcraft, crime, and legal behaviour. The first section, "Concepts", analyzes certain useful notions, such as patriarchy and morality. The second section, "Identities", seeks to deepen this analysis into the studies of female identities in various situations, cultures and dimensions and to show the fluidity and flexibility of what is called femininity nowadays. The third part, "Practises", seeks to rethink the bigger narratives through the case-studies coming from Northern Europe to see how conventional ideas of gender did not work in this particular region. The case studies also challenge the established narratives in such well-research historiographies as witchcraft and sexual offences and at the same time suggest new insights for the developing fields of study, such as history of homicide.

Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe 1st Table of contents:

Part I Historiography and the Politics of Gender
1 From Women’s Oppression to Male Anxiety: The Concept of ‘Patriarchy’ in the Historiography of Early Modern Europe
Feminist Articulations of Patriarchy
The Concept of Patriarchy in the Historiography of Early Modern Europe
Private vs. Public Patriarchy: the Early Modern Patriarchal Household
Reconsidering Male Power, Reassessing Patriarchy
Conclusions
Notes
2 The Metaphysics of Gender in Christine de Pizan’s Thought
Metaphysics of Gender in the Middle Ages
Gender as an Experience
The Will of God—the Gendered Forms of Women and Men
Nature’s Will and Mother’s Power
Gendered Inclinations and Mutations of Gender
Conclusions
Notes
3 ‘That Women Are But Men’s Shadows’: Examining Gender, Violence and Criminality in Early Modern Britain
Introduction
Interpretations of Early Modern Female Criminality
Women and Homicide in the Early Modern Period
Women and Newborn Child Murder in the Early Modern Period
Women and Assault in the Early Modern Period
Conclusions
Notes
Part II Female Spirituality, Religion, and Gender Identities
4 A Good Wife?: Demonic Possession and Discourses of Gender in Late Medieval Culture
Possessing Demons and Delivery Miracles
Gendered Ideals and Demonic Possession
A Good Wife?
Vade Diabolo—Marital Relationships
Conclusions
Notes
5 Between Martyrdom and Everyday Pragmatism: Gender, Family, and Anabaptism in Early Modern Germany
Introduction
Anabaptist Diversity
The Debate about Gender Equality
Martyrs, Prophetesses, and the Spiritually Called
Anabaptist Women, Men, and Families in Rural Württemberg
Conclusions
Notes
6 Women’s Sexuality between Legal Prescription and Ecclesiastical Control in the Romanian Principalities in the 18th Century
Notes
Part III Gendered Witches and Nordic Patriarchal Compromises
7 Women, Witches, and the Town Courts of Ribe: Ideas of the Gendered Witch in Early Modern Denmark
Danish Witchcraft Prosecution and Early Modern Ribe
Space, Place, and Threats of Witchcraft in the Accusations
Concepts of Femininity and Masculinity
The Gendered Witch in the Confessions
Conclusions
Notes
8 Male Witches and Masculinity in Early Modern Finnish Witchcraft Trials
The Development of Sex Ratios of Witches in Finland
Household Heads and Witchcraft
Tietäjä, the Legal Tradition and Gender
Reading Masculinities: Combining, Contesting, and Hegemonic
Conclusions
Notes
9 Gendering Moral Crimes in Early Modern England and Europe—Blasphemy the Mirror Image of Witchcraft?
Crimes Against God and the Social Order
Blasphemy, Morality, and Subcultures
Didactic Patterns and Gendered Waywardness
Blasphemy, Witchcraft and the Discovery of Gendered Moral Policing
Notes
Part IV Laws, Genders, and Deviancies
10 Gendered Suicide in Early Modern Sweden and Finland
Suicide—A Masculine Crime?
Backgrounds of Suicide—Different Crises Faced by Men and Women?
Gendered Interpretations of Suicide—Weak-Minded Women and Failed Men
Gender and Suicide in 17th-Century Sweden and Finland
Notes
11 Responsibility of a Seducer?: Men, Women, and Breach of Promise in Early Modern Swedish Legislation
The Engagement Process and the Meaning of Sexual Intercourse
The Active Initiator
From a Passive Receiver to a Responsible Individual
Conclusions
Notes
12 Personalizing Homosexuality and Masculinity in Early Modern Russia
Introduction: Attitudes to Russian Homosexuality(IES)
Defining Homosexuality in Early Modern Russia
Men and Boys: Homosexuality Personalized
Homosexuality and Heteronormativity: How to Define Russian Masculinities?
Notes
Contributors
Selected Bibliography
Archives and Unprinted Sources
Finland and Sweden
Russia
Printed Sources

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