Jacqueline Murray

From Texts to Bodies (eBook, PDF)

Sexes, Genders, and Sexualities in Premodern Europe

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Produktbeschreibung

From Texts to Bodies: Sexes, Genders, and Sexualities in Premodern Europe reflects the historiographical changes to the study of women, gender, and sexuality in premodern Europe across the 1990s into the 2010s. Developing from post-Baby Boom interest in marriage and the family, subsequently inspired by feminist theory and cultural studies, scholars turned their gaze to the wider field of sex and gender. Using an interdisciplinary methodology and a broad cross-section of medieval primary sources, these articles trace the evolution of medieval studies from the family, through women and gender, to focus on sex and sexuality, concluding with critical analyses of men, masculinity, and male embodiment.

Part I focuses on medieval women within the context of marriage, family, and the church and reveals new approaches to recovering women's experiences. The articles sit at the transition point between recuperative women's history and critical gender history. Part II uses an interdisciplinary lens to examine the body, sex, and sexuality and the intersections of sex/sexualities and genders. The innovative articles in Part III comprise the foundations for the critical analysis of premodern men, masculinity, embodiment, and male sexuality. Together, these studies demonstrate the expansion of research from the examination of theoretical texts to the analysis of bodies as lived experience.

This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of premodern marriage, genders, sexualities, and embodiment, as well as those interested in the social and religious contexts of premodern society. Clear and accessible, this volume also provides an introduction and overview for readers with a broad interest in the Middle Ages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040335154
• Artikelnr.: 73527458

Autorenporträt

Jacqueline Murray is University Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Guelph. She is an internationally recognized pioneer in medieval social history and a leader in medieval gender and sexuality studies. She earned her BA from the University of British Columbia and MA and PhD from the University of Toronto. Her thirty scholarly articles and seventeen collections of essays about sexuality, gender, and particularly medieval masculinity have transformed our understanding of the past and opened new research areas. She is a frequent contributor to the popular media, demonstrating the relevance of medieval roots to contemporary questions about sex and gender.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I: WOMEN
MARRIAGE
AND GENDER 1. Kinship and Friendship: The Perception of Family by Clergy and Laity in Late Medieval London. In Albion 20
no. 3 (1988): 369-385. 2. Individualism and Consensual Marriage: Some Evidence from Medieval England. In Women
Marriage
and the Family in Medieval Christendom. Essays in Memory of Michael M. Sheehan
edited by Joel T. Rosenthal and Constance M. Rousseau
121-151. Kalamazoo
MI: Medieval Institute Publications
Western Michigan University
1998. 3. The Absent Penitent: The Cure of Women's Souls and Confessors' Manuals in Thirteenth-Century England. In Women
the Book
and the Godly
edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor
13-25. London: Boydell and Brewer
1995. 4. On the Origins and Role of 'Wise Women' in Causes for Annulment on the Grounds of Male Impotence. In Journal of Medieval History 16
no. 3 (1990): 235-249. 5. Twice Marginal and Twice Invisible: Lesbians in the Middle Ages. In Handbook of Medieval Sexuality
edited by Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage
191-211. New York: Garland
1996. 6. Thinking about Gender: The Diversity of Medieval Perspectives. In Power of the Weak: Women in the Middle Ages
edited by J. Carpenter and S. B. Maclean
1-26. Chicago: University of Illinois Press
1995. PART II: SEXUALITIES AND GENDERS 7. Gendered Souls in Sexed Bodies: The Male Construction of Sexuality in Some Medieval Confessor's Manuals. In Handling Sin: Confession in the Middle Ages
edited by Peter Biller and A. J. Minnis
York Studies in Medieval Theology
vol. 2
79-93. York
Eng.: Boydell and Brewer
1998. 8. Historicizing Sex
Sexualizing History. In Writing Medieval History
edited by Nancy Partner
133-52. London: Hodder
2005. Reprint
London: Bloomsbury Academic
2010. 9. The Sexual Body. In A Cultural History of the Body in the Medieval Age
vol. 2
A Cultural History of the Human Body
edited by Linda Kalof
59-75. Oxford: Berg
2010. 10. Sexuality and Spirituality: The Intersection of Medieval Theology and Medicine. In Fides et Historia 23
no. 1 (1991): 20-36. 11. Agnolo Firenzuola on Female Sexuality and Women's Equality. In Sixteenth Century Journal 22
no. 1 (1991): 199-213. 12. One Flesh
Two Sexes
Three Genders? In Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe: New Perspectives
edited by Lisa Bitel and Felice Lifshitz
52-75. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
2008. PART III: MEN AND MASCULINITIES 13. Hiding Behind the Universal Man: Male Sexuality in the Middle Ages. In Handbook of Medieval Sexuality
edited by Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage
123-52. New York: Garland
1996. 14. 'The law of sin that is in my members': The Problem of Male Embodiment. In Gender and Holiness: Men
Women
and Saints in Late Medieval Europe
edited by Samantha J. E. Riches and Sarah Salih
9-22. London: Routledge
2002. 15. Masculinizing Religious Life: Sexual Prowess
the Battle for Chastity
and Monastic Identity. In Holiness and Masculinity
edited by Katherine J. Lewis and Patricia Callum
24-42. Cardiff: University of Wales Press; Toronto: University of Toronto Press
2004. 16. Men's Bodies
Men's Minds: Seminal Emissions and Sexual Anxiety in the Middle Ages. In Annual Review of Sex Research 8
no. 1 (1997): 1-26. 17. Mystical Castration: Some Reflections on Peter Abelard
Hugh of Lincoln
and Sexual Control. In Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West
edited by Jacqueline Murray
73-91. New York: Garland Press
1999. 18. Sexual Mutilation and Castration Anxiety: A Medieval Perspective. In The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity
Social Tolerance
and Homosexuality
edited by Matthew Kuefler
254-272. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
2006. 19. The Battle for Chastity: Miraculous Castration and the Quelling of Desire in the Middle Ages. In Journal of the History of Sexuality 28
no. 1 (2019): 96-116. Bibliography Publishers Permissions