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Nothing less than a rethinking of what we mean when we talk about "men" and "women" of the medieval period, this volume demonstrates how the idea of gender -- i

From women's medicine and the writings of Christine de Pizan to the lives of market and tradeswomen and the idealization of virginity, gender and social status

In Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe, six historians explore how medieval people professed Christianity, how they performed gender, and how the two coi

This book examines how scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in cultural assumptions about gender.

Status and gender are two closely associated concepts within medieval society, which tended to view both notions as binary: elite or low status, married or sing