Format:
Online-Ressource (296 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
ISBN:
9780415466844
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Praise for the first edition:'It is difficult to imagine another book in which one could find all this diverse material, and no doubt Amt's collection, in its richness, and in its genuine clarity and simplicity will takes prominent place in our expanded, diversified medieval curriculum, a curriculum that takes class, gender, and ethnicity as central to an understanding of world cultural history.' - The Medieval ReviewLong considered to be a definitive and truly groundbreaking collection of sources, Women's Lives in Medieval Europe uniquely pr
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A note on money; I THE HERITAGE OF IDEAS; A. Christian belief; 1. The Bible: Adam and Eve (1st millennium BC); 2. The Bible: Model women in the Gospels (1st c. AD); 3. The Bible: Epistles of St. Paul (1st c. AD); 4. St. Jerome: Virginity and marriage (4th c. AD); 5. St. Augustine of Hippo: On the good of marriage (ca. AD 401); B. Roman ideals; 6. Funeral eulogy of Turia (1st c. BC); 7. Seneca: Letter to his mother (1st c. AD); 8. Laws of the Roman Empire (3rd-6th c. AD); C. Germanic custom
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9. Tacitus: The Germans (AD 98)10. Laws of the Salian Franks (6th c. AD); II WOMEN AND THE LAW; 11. Cáin Adamnáin: Irish law of women (7th c.); 12. Gratian: Canon law on marriage (12th c.); 13. Decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215); 14. Norman laws (early 13th c.); 15. Laws of Sicily (1231); 16. Spanish laws (13th c.); 17. Customs of Magdeburg (13th c.); 18. London crimes and punishments (14th c.); 19. Sumptuary laws (13th-14th c.); III MARRIAGE, SEX, CHILDBIRTH, AND HEALTH; 20. Theodore's penitential (ca. 690); 21. The life of Christina of Markyate: Christina's rebellion (12th c.)
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22. Liturgy for the marriage service (11th-16th c.)23. Manorial court rolls: Unfree women's marriages (13th-14th c.); 24. Holy Maidenhood: A debate on marriage (13th c.); 25. Episcopal court records: Elizabeth Lovell sues her husband (1326-8); 26. Dowry practices in Italy (14th c.); 27. The householder of Paris: Manual for his wife (ca. 1392); 28. Liturgy for mothers (11th-16th c.); 29. The Trotula: On the conditions of women (12th c.); 30. Hildegard of Bingen: Medical writings (12th c.); 31. University of Paris records: Case of a woman physician (1322); IV NOBLEWOMEN'S LIVES
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32. Gregory of Tours: The story of Ingitrude and Berthegund (6th c.)33. Dhuoda: Manual for her son (841-3); 34. Anglo-Saxon wills (10th-11th c.); 35. Autobiography of Guibert de Nogent: Life of his mother (11th-12th c.); 36. Matilda of Stickney: Land grants (ca. 1170-98); 37. The roll of ladies and boys and girls (1185); 38. The Book of the Knight of the Tower (1371); 39. Leonor López de Córdoba: Autobiography (14th-15th c.); 40. Cristina Corner: Petition for exemption from sumptuary laws (15th c.); 41. Christine de Pizan: Autobiographical writing (1405)
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42. Household accounts of Dame Alice de Bryene (1412-13)43. Margaret Paston: Letters to her husband (15th c.); 44. A manor house: Ightham Mote (ca. 1340); V PEASANT WOMAN'S LIVES; 45. Working women on Frankish royal estates (6th-8th c.); 46. Legal status of German peasants (11th c.); 47. Women farmworkers' duties (ca. 1270); 48. Survey of Alwalton: Lands and obligations (1279); 49. Manorial court rolls (14th c.); 50. Coroners' records: Unexpected deaths (13th-14th c.); 51. Peasant dwellings; VI TOWNWOMEN'S LIVES; 52. Parisian guild regulations (13th c.); 53. Veronese civic statutes (1276)
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54. Lawsuit: Women moneylenders (1281)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781134720606
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415466844
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Women's Lives in Medieval Europe : A Sourcebook
Language:
English
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