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For five decades, Medieval Europe: A Short History has been the
best-selling text for courses on the history of Medieval Europe.
This acclaimed book has long been applauded for both its
scholarship and its engaging narrative. Oxford University Press is
pleased to continue this tradition of excellence with a new,
affordable, and streamlined twelfth edition featuring a new
coauthor, Sandy Bardsley. The new edition offers increased coverage
of race and ethnicity, more incorporation of archaeological data,
an overall streamlining of the text, and more.
A Medieval Life offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her
world, and an introduction to historical method. A Medieval Life
offers a biography of one woman, a portrait of her world, and an
introduction to historical method. Written in a clear and
accessible style, it reworks a well-loved book to provide an
entirely new resource for students, teachers, and general readers.
Like Cecilia Penifader, most people in the Middle Ages were
peasants, humble people living socially below the knights, bishops,
and kings who figure so large in history books. Judith M. Bennett
shows that peasants, too, made history. She explores how peasant
lives were closely entangled with the lives and interests of those
more privileged, looking at manors as well as villages; parishes,
faith, and ritual practices; royal taxes and justice; economy and
trade; famine and disease. By moving out from Cecilia's
perspective, the book explores the ties and tensions that bound all
medieval people-poor as well as rich-into a medieval society. The
book also provides a primer on the fact-finding and interpretative
debates that are at the heart of the historian's craft. Each
chapter includes a new section on how medievalists today are
studying such topics as puberty, morals, courtship, and climate
change. The illustrations, taken from the famous Luttrell Psalter,
provide a coherent, rich, and interpretatively complex visual
program. And the final chapter explores some of the different ways
in which historians, for better and for worse, have understood
medieval society.
<div>Focusing on medieval women with a wide range of
occupations and life-styles, the interdisciplinary essays in this
collection examine women's activities within the patriarchal
structures of the time. Individual essays explore women's
challenges to a sexual ideology that confined them strictly to the
roles of wives, mothers, and servants. Also included are sections
on women and work, cultural production and literacy, and religious
life. <br><br>These essays provide a greater
understanding of the ways in which gender has played a part in
determining relations of power in Western cultures. This volume
makes a vital contribution to the current scholarship about women
in the Middle Ages.</div>
Written for everyone interested in women's and gender history,
History Matters reaffirms the importance to feminist theory and
activism of long-term historical perspectives. Judith M. Bennett,
who has been commenting on developments in women's and gender
history since the 1980s, argues that the achievement of a more
feminist future relies on a rich, plausible, and well-informed
knowledge of the past, and she asks her readers to consider what
sorts of feminist history can best advance the struggles of the
twenty-first century. Bennett takes as her central problem the
growing chasm between feminism and history. Closely allied in the
1970s, each has now moved away from the other. Seeking to narrow
this gap, Bennett proposes that feminist historians turn their
attention to the intellectual challenges posed by the persistence
of patriarchy. She posits a "patriarchal equilibrium" whereby,
despite many changes in women's experiences over past centuries,
women's status vis-a-vis that of men has remained remarkably
unchanged. Although, for example, women today find employment in
occupations unimaginable to medieval women, medieval and modern
women have both encountered the same wage gap, earning on average
only three-fourths of the wages earned by men. Bennett argues that
the theoretical challenge posed by this patriarchal equilibrium
will be best met by long-term historical perspectives that reach
back well before the modern era. In chapters focused on women's
work and lesbian sexuality, Bennett demonstrates the contemporary
relevance of the distant past to feminist theory and politics. She
concludes with a chapter that adds a new twist-the challenges of
textbooks and classrooms-to viewing women's history from a distance
and with feminist intent. A new manifesto, History Matters engages
forthrightly with the challenges faced by feminist historians
today. It argues for the radical potential of a history that is
focused on feminist issues, aware of the distant past, attentive to
continuities over time, and alert to the workings of patriarchal
power.
When we think about the European past, we tend to imagine villages,
towns, and cities populated by conventional families-married
couples and their children. Although most people did marry and pass
many of their adult years in the company of a spouse, this vision
of a preindustrial Europe shaped by heterosexual marriage
deceptively hides the well-established fact that, in some times and
places, as many as twenty-five percent of women and men remained
single throughout their lives. Despite the significant number of
never-married lay women in medieval and early modern Europe, the
study of their role and position in that society has been largely
neglected. Singlewomen in the European Past opens up this group for
further investigation. It is not only the first book to highlight
the important minority of women who never married but also the
first to address the critical matter of differences among women
from the perspective of marital status. Essays by leading
scholars-among them Maryanne Kowaleski, Margaret Hunt, Ruth Mazo
Karras, Susan Mosher Stuard, Roberta Krueger, and Merry
Wiesner-deal with topics including the sexual and emotional
relationships of singlewomen, the economic issues and employment
opportunities facing them, the differences between the lives of
widows and singlewomen, the conflation of singlewomen and
prostitutes, and the problem of female slavery. The chapters both
illustrate the roles open to the singlewoman in the thirteenth
through eighteenth centuries and raise new perspectives about the
experiences of singlewomen in earlier times.
The American Historical Association's Committee on Women Historians
commissioned some of the pioneering figures in women's history to
prepare essays in their respective areas of expertise. These
volumes, the second and third in a series of three, complete their
collected efforts. The first volume of the series dealt with the
broad them necessary to understanding women's history around the
world. As a counterpoint, volume 2 is concerned with issues that
have shaped the history of women in particular places and during
particular eras. It examines women in ancient civilizations;
including women in China, Japan, and Korea; women and gender in
south and South East Asia; Medieval women; women and gender in
Colonial Latin America; and the history, Susan Mann, Barbara N.
Ramusack, Judith M. Bennett. Ann Twinam, and Kathleen Brown. As
with volume 2, volume 3 also discusses current trends in gender and
women's history from a regional perspective. It includes essays on
sub-Saharan African, the Middle East, early and modern Europe,
Russian and the Soviet Union, Latin American, and North American
after 1865. Its contributors include Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Nikki R.
Keddie, Barbara Engel, Asuncion Lavrin, Ellen Dubois, and Judith P.
Zinser writing with Bonnie S. Anderson. Incorporating essays from
top scholars ranging over an abundance of regions, dates, and
methodologies, the three volumes of "Women's History in Global
Perspective constitute an invaluable resource for anyone interested
in a comprehensive overview on the latest in feminist scholarship.
In 1300, women brewed and sold most of the ale drunk in England, but by 1600 the industry was largely controlled by men. Ale, Beer and Brewsters investigates this change, asking how, when, and why brewing ceased to be a woman's trade and became a trade of men. In doing so, Bennett sheds new light on a central problem in women's history: the effects of early capitalism on the status of women's work.
Unlike most histories of European women, which have typically
focused on the 19th and 20th century elite, this study reconstructs
the public lives of peasant women and men during the six decades
before the Black Death of 1348-49. Drawing on the extensive records
of the forest manor of Brigstock, Judith Bennett challenges the
myth of a "golden age" of equality for medieval men and women.
Instead, she ably shows that women faced profound political, legal,
economic, and social disadvantages in their dealings with men.
These disadvantages stemmed more from women's household status as
dependents of their husbands than from any notion of female
inferiority; consequently, adolescents and widows participated much
more actively than wives in the public life of Brigstock. Women in
the Medieval English Countryside demonstrates not only how enduring
the subordination of women has been throughout English history, but
also how firmly that subordination has been rooted in the conjugal
household.
In 1300, women brewed and sold most of the ale drunk in England, but by 1600 the industry was largely controlled by men. Ale, Beer and Brewsters investigates this change, asking how, when, and why brewing ceased to be a woman's trade and became a trade of men. In doing so, Bennett sheds new light on a central problem in women's history: the effects of early capitalism on the status of women's work.
Focusing on medieval women with a wide range of occupations and
life-styles, the interdisciplinary essays in this collection
examine women's activities within the patriarchal structures of the
time. Individual essays explore women's challenges to a sexual
ideology that confined them strictly to the roles of wives,
mothers, and servants. Also included are sections on women and
work, cultural production and literacy, and religious life.
These essays provide a greater understanding of the ways in which
gender has played a part in determining relations of power in
Western cultures. This volume makes a vital contribution to the
current scholarship about women in the Middle Ages.
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