Gender in late medieval and early modern Europe [electronic resource] / edited by Marianna G. Muravyeva and Raisa Maria Tovio.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : why and how gender matters? / Marianna G. Muravyeva and Raisa Maria Toivo -- pt. 1. Historiography and the politics of gender -- 1. From women's oppression to male anxiety : the concept of patriarchy in the historiography of early modern Europe / Androniki Dialeti -- 2. The metaphysics of gender in Christine de Pizan's thought / Ilse Paakkinen -- 3. That women are but men's shadows : examining gender, violence and criminality in early modern Britain / Anne-Marie Kilday -- pt. 2. Female spirituality, religion and gender identities -- 4. A good wife : demonic possession and discourses of gender in later medieval culture / Sari Katajala-Peltomaa -- 5. Between martyrdom and everyday pragmatism : gender, family, and anabaptism in early modern Germany / P�aivi R�ais�anen-Schr�oder -- 6. Women's sexuality between legal prescription and ecclesiastical control in the Romanian principalities in the 18th century / Constanta Vintil�a-Ghitulesku -- pt. 3. Gendered witches and Nordic patriarchal compromises -- 7. Women, witches, and the town courts of Ribe : ideas of the gendered witch in early modern Denmark / Louise Nyholm Kallestrup -- 8. Male witches and masculinity in early modern Finnish witchcraft trials / Raisa Maria Toivo -- 9. Gendering moral crimes in early modern England and Europe : blasphemy the mirror image of witchcraft? / David Nash -- pt. 4. Laws, genders and deviancies -- 10. Gendered suicide in early modern Sweden and Finland / Riikka Miettinen -- 11. The responsibility of a seducer? : men, women and breach of promise in early modern Swedish legislation / Mari V�alim�aki -- 12. Personalizing homosexuality and masculinity in early modern Russia / Marianna Muravyeva -- Contributors -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

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