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Popular memory and gender in medieval England : men, women and testimony in the church courts, c.1200-1500 /

This book considers for the first time how gender influenced the ways that "ordinary" men and women remembered past events in the centuries leading up to the Reformations. Previous studies have focussed on mnemonics in universities and monasteries; here, however, the author explores lay co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kane, Bronach Christina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : Boydell Press, 2019.
Colección:Gender in the Middle Ages ; v. 13.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Pastoral care, canon law and social relations
  • Gender, narrative, and testimony
  • Bodily practices
  • Sexuality and generation
  • Marriage, kinship, and widowhood
  • Orality, written memory, and custom
  • Place, landscape, and gender
  • Conclusion.