1st Edition

Revisiting Gender in European History, 1400–1800

    200 Pages
    by Routledge

    200 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Do women have a history? Did women have a renaissance? These were provocative questions when they were raised in the heyday of women’s studies in the 1970s. But how relevant does gender remain to premodern history in the twenty-first century? This book considers this question in eight new case studies that span the European continent from 1400 to 1800. An introductory essay examines the category of gender in historiography and specifically within premodern historiography, as well as the issue of source material for historians of the period. The eight individual essays seek to examine gender in relation to emerging fields and theoretical considerations, as well as how premodern history contributes to traditional concepts and theories within women’s and gender studies, such as patriarchy.

    Introduction  Elise M. Dermineur, Åsa Karlsson Sjögren and Virginia Langum  1. Anatomy of Early Modern Patriarchy  Elise M. Dermineur  2. Gender and the Underground Economy in the Western French Alps  Anne Montenach  3. Theorizing Crime and Gender in Long-Term Perspective  Manon van der Heijden and Ariadne Schmidt  4. Poor Girls’ Schooling and Transitions of Gender and Class  Åsa Karlsson Sjögren  5. Medicine, Female Mystics and Illness Experience  Virginia Langum  6. Love and Friendship Between Lower Order Scottish Men: Or What the History of Emotions Has Brought to Early Modern Gender History  Katie Barclay  7. Making Power: Gender, Materiality, Performativity and Catherine de Medici  Susan Broomhall  8. Gender Performance in Early Modern Religious Life  Raisa Maria Toivo

    Biography

    Elise M. Dermineur is Associate Professor of History at Umeå University and a Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala.



    Åsa Karlsson Sjögren is Professor of History at Umeå University.



    Virginia Langum is Associate Professor of English at Umeå University and Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study at Uppsala University.