The Oxford handbook of women and gender in medieval Europe / edited by Judith M. Bennett and Ruth Mazo Karras.

Women and gender in medieval Europe

Oxford ; New York : Oxford Univ. Press, 2013.

xiv, 626 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

1st ed.

Women, gender, and medieval historians / Judith M. Bennett, Ruth Mazo Karras -- Pt.I Gendered thinking -- Gender and the Christian traditions / Dyan Elliott -- Jewish traditions about women and gender roles : from rabbinic teachings to medieval practice / Judith R. Baskin -- Women and gender in Islamic traditions / Jonathan P. Berkey -- The political traditions of female rulership in medieval Europe / Amalie Fößel -- Medicine and natural philosophy : naturalistic traditions / Katharine Park -- Pt.II Looking through the law -- Women and laws in early medieval Europe / Janet L. Nelson, Alice Rio -- Conflicts over gender in civic courts / Carol Lansing -- Later medieval law in community context / Marie A. Kelleher -- Brideprice, dowry, and other marital assigns / Susan Mosher Stuard -- Women and gender in canon law / Sara McDougall -- Pt.III Domestic lives -- Gendering demographic change in the Middle Ages / Maryanne Kowaleski -- Genders and material culture / Katherine L. French -- Gender and daily life in Jewish communities / Elisheva Baumgarten -- Carolingian domesticities / Rachel Stone -- Public and private space and gender in medieval Europe / Sarah Rees Jones -- Pious domesticities / Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane -- Pt.IV Land, labor, economy -- Slavery / Sally McKee -- Urban economies / Kathryn Reyerson -- Rural economies / Jane Whittle -- Aristocratic economies : women and family / Joanna H. Drell -- Pt.V Bodies, pleasures, desires -- Caring for gendered bodies / Monica H. Green -- The Byzantine body / Kathryn M. Ringrose -- Same-sex possibilities / Helmut Puff -- Performing courtliness / E. Jane Burns -- Pt.VI Engendering Christian holiness -- Gender and the initial Christianization of northern Europe (to 1000 CE) / Lisa M. Bitel -- The gender of the religious : wo/men and the invention of monasticism / Albrecht Diem -- Women and reform in the central Middle Ages / Fiona J. Griffiths -- Devoted holiness in the lay world / Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker -- Cults of saints / Miri Rubin -- Heresy and gender in the middle ages / John H. Arnold -- Cultures of devotion / Kathleen Ashley -- Pt.VII Turning points and places -- The bride of Christ, the "male woman," and the female reader in late antiquity / Kate Cooper -- Gender and the medieval millennium / Constance H. Berman -- Gender in the transition to merchant capitalism / Martha C. Howell -- Toward the witch craze / Laura Stokes -- Towards feminism : Christine de Pizan, female advocacy, and women's textual communities in the late Middle Ages and beyond / Roberta L. Krueger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.