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.
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