[PDF] Padlocks And Girdles Of Chastity An Historical And Descriptive Notice To Which Is Added Freydiers Speech Against Their Use In France Re Lajon Versus Berlhe Breach Of Promise Of Marriage Translated From The French eBook

Author : A. Classen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2007-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230603092

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The chastity belt is one of those objects people have commonly identified with the 'dark' Middle Ages. This book analyzes the origin of this myth and demonstrates how a convenient misconception, or contorted imagination, of an allegedly historical practice has led to profoundly flawed interpretations of control mechanisms used by jealous husbands.

Author : A. McClanan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1137044691

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This book reconsiders a wide array of images of Byzantine empresses on media as diverse as bronze coins and gold mosaic from the fifth through to the seventh centuries A.D. The representations have often been viewed in terms of individual personas, but strong typological currents frame their medieval context. Empress Theodora, the target of political pornography, has consumed the bulk of past interest, but even her representations fit these patterns. Methodological tools from fields as disparate as numismatics as well as cultural and gender studies help clarify the broader cultural significance of female imperial representation and patronage at this time.

Author : B. Wheeler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1137052627

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Eleanor's patrilineal descent, from a lineage already prestigious enough to have produced an empress in the eleventh century, gave her the lordship of Aquitaine. But marriage re-emphasized her sex which, in the medieval scheme of gender-power relations relegated her to the position of Lady in relation to her Lordly husbands. In this collection, essays provide a context for Eleanor's life and further an evolving understanding of Eleanor's multifaceted career. A valuable collection on the greatest heiress of the medieval period.

Author : R. Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 2002-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230107192

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The late-medieval movement into 'vernacular theology,' as it has come to be called, inspired many forms of literary expression, in all the languages of Europe. Spanning a wide field, the contributors to this volume consider hagiography, translations of and commentaries on scripture, accounts of visionary experiences, and devotional literature. Their essays illuminate encounters with the divine mediated through language, bringing into play a diversity of national cultures and disciplinary points of view. They also engage vital social and political issues connected with religious experience, including challenges to authority, reinterpretations of texts, and renegotiations of gender roles.

Author : J. Ganim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1137090391

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This unique study traces fundamental parallels between medieval European and Middle Eastern cultures. By examining sources in cultural history, literature, and architecture, this book reveals mutual influences evident in the development of the current conception of the Middle Ages.

Author : Bonnie Wheeler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1137069546

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Joan of Arc is an unusual saint. Canonized in 1920 as a virgin, she died in 1431 as a condemned heretic. Uneducated, militant, and youthful, she obeyed 'Voices' that counselled her to pursue an unprecedented vocation. The various trial records provide a wealth of evidence about how Joan and others understood her spiritual life. This collection explores multiple facets of Joan's prayerful life. Two-thirds of the essays focus on Joan in her own time; the later chapters study Joan's formative influence upon modern women. Taken together, these essays offer new perspectives on the heroism of Joan's original way of sanctity.

Author : K. Robertson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 113707552X

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This timely volume examines the commitments of historicism in the wake of New Historicism. It contributes to the construction of a materialist historicism while, at the same time, proposing that discussions of work need not be limited to the clash between labour and capital. To this end, the essays offer more than a strictly historical view of the complex terms, social and literary, within which labour was treated in the medieval period. Several of the essays strive to reformulate the very critical language we use to think about the categories of labour and work through a continually doubled engagement with modern theories of labour and medieval theories and practices of labour.