Gender in the early medieval world: East and West, 300-900
1. Introduction Julia M. H. Smith Part I. Gender in Late antique, Byzantine and Islamic Societies: 2. ethnicity the early middle ages Walter Pohl 3. Clothes maketh man: power dressing elite masculinity later roman world Mary Harlow 4. Social transformation, gender transformation: court eunuch, 300-900 Shaun Tougher 5. Sex, lies textuality: secret history of Prokopios rhetoric sixth-century Byzantium Leslie Brubaker 6. Romance reality brideshows Martha Vinson 7. Men, women slaves Abbasid society Bray 8. politics harem al-Muqtadir Nadia Maria El Cheikh II. Germanic Studies: 9. Dressing conservatively: women's brooches as markers ethnic identity? Bonnie Effros 10. Gendering courts medieval west Janet L. Nelson 11. liturgical practice Gisela Muschiol 12. patronage culture Merovingian Gaul Yitzhak Hen 13. Genealogy defined by women: case Pippinids Ian Wood 14. Brideshows revisited: praise, slander exegesis reign Empress Judith Mayke de Jong 15. 'What is word if not semen?' Priestly bodies Carolingian Lynda Coon 16. Negotiating gender, family status Anglo-Saxon burial practices, c.600-950 Dawn Hadley Index.
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