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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 637–668.
Published: 01 September 2024
... demography labor practices female work social formation In 1981, when twenty years of demographic analysis undertaken at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure bore fruit with the publication of Tony Wrigley and Roger Schofield’s Population History of England...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (3): 615–634.
Published: 01 September 2012
... (the convents of Santa Ana, Santa Escolástica, and San
Millán) that touched on the core elements of female cloistered life. In 1517,
Fox chose to rewrite the Benedictine Rule in a format specifically addressed
to women, adapting its principles more directly to the needs of female reli-
gious (the work...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 493–528.
Published: 01 September 2024
... to liberal modernity. 9 In this scenario, after 1350 the structure of land and labor markets in the North Sea region of Europe facilitated greater female engagement than in other parts of Europe. 10 In particular, it is argued that women in their teens and early twenties increasingly opted for work...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 187–213.
Published: 01 January 2014
...Mary Baine Campbell This essay focuses attention on the cognitive and spiritual work of the dream and the devotional labor of the Jesuit missionary in seventeenth-century Quebec, and views these often passionately opposed spiritual efforts—performed by the various and often passionately opposed...
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in Forgotten Family: The Influence of Women and Children on the Nexus of Wage Earning and Demographic Change in England, 1260–1860
> Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 1. The wage series, expressed as welfare ratio (nominal wage / cost of subsistence basket). Sources: Male day laborer, Clark, “Long March of History”; male annual worker, Humphries and Weisdorf, “Unreal Wages?”; female day laborer and female annual worker, Humpries and Weisdorf, “Wages
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 41–64.
Published: 01 January 2004
... wish to place Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s writings
and identity as a female author. To that purpose, I offer a reading of her
works across the three genres in which she wrote—legends, plays, and his-
toriography.1
Among the chroniclers of his reign, Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (ca.
935–after 973...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 79–104.
Published: 01 January 2018
... that are embedded in
the Fabrica’s title page, the work also perpetuated significant errors with
respect to female reproductive anatomy. Largely owing to Vesalius’s reliance
on observations of animal anatomy where his direct experience with the
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 48...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (2): 261–300.
Published: 01 May 2018
... male nor female) or, on the other,
absolute plenitude (both male and female The principal scholars of Juana’s
work have all analyzed Juana’s gender ambiguity as formative for her the-
ology. Ronald Surtz suggests that Juana’s androgyne experience led her to
consistently emphasize the feminine...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 33–52.
Published: 01 January 2020
... not only how, what, and where women wrote, but also how their texts found audiences and the ways in which female authorship was imagined. This article builds upon this work surrounding reception and the figure of the early modern woman writer to consider the obverse of fictions of loss and neglect...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (3): 419–435.
Published: 01 September 2003
... ceased to function
normatively as a measure of religious status. Although, as Elizabeth Clark
has pointed out, “gender-bending” was a feature of Christian portrayals of
ascetic heroes from early on, Thecla being a notable example, still the gender
that was “bent” was typically female rather than...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 121–146.
Published: 01 January 2017
... working within female bodies means acknowledging the poten-
tial power inherent to those bodies. Medical discourse of the same period
describes the mind and womb operating independent of one another. This
separation creates fear about conflicting wills within the body, condemning
the connection...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (2): 393–416.
Published: 01 May 2011
... works in part because the number and complexity
of his female characters featured in it are unique.2 These include a seductive
noblewoman, Dame Sensualitie, who functions as a devious instrument of
Rome and the Scottish clergy; two allegorical virtues who also arrive from
abroad, Veritie...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 41–62.
Published: 01 January 2000
...Helmut Puff © by Duke University Press 2000 JMEMS30.1-03-Puff.41-62 12/21/99 4:32 PM Page 41
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Female Sodomy: The Trial
of Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 407–432.
Published: 01 May 2009
... the inequality of women class divisions
must be addressed as well as gender.3 The opening poem of the Nosgay
identifies a female “I” who is not only out of work (“serviceless” [1]) and ill,
but who is attempting to find solace and sustenance in an alienating urban
milieu; since she is unsuccessful...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 January 2004
... of the “Fall of the Roman Empire” continues to excite debate
among historians and archaeologists, fifteen centuries after Odoacer deposed
the usurper Romulus in 476. Similarly, there is an ever-growing corpus of
work on women’s history and, to some extent more recently, gender in late
antiquity...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (1): 5–40.
Published: 01 January 2000
...-
logical literature was read in order to learn about the causes and cures of
women’s diseases, new readers brought new habits of reading to these
texts in the later Middle Ages. Concerned less with alleviating women’s
suffering than with learning how the female body works...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 213–250.
Published: 01 May 2001
... version for women. However, a closer examination reveals
that the gendering of another category is at work here. The transmission
tells the story of how the knowledge or attribution of female authorship
becomes a problem to be negotiated when made in relation to the universal...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 529–558.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Figure 1. The wage series, expressed as welfare ratio (nominal wage / cost of subsistence basket). Sources: Male day laborer, Clark, “Long March of History”; male annual worker, Humphries and Weisdorf, “Unreal Wages?”; female day laborer and female annual worker, Humpries and Weisdorf, “Wages...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (3): 387–402.
Published: 01 September 2003
....” Having said these
things, he stretched himself out and died. While dressing him the
worldly people found that he truly was a virgin. 3
The radical conrmation of the monk’s claim about himself—“a virgin in
my body”— made possible by the appearance of a female body only under...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (1): 53–73.
Published: 01 January 2020
....55 Contemporary hagiographers preferred women saints to be influen- tial advisors to bishops and priests but recoiled from any hint of female pub- lic preaching. The work of tidying up Brigid and, indeed, many other saints, really began in the aftermath of Luther s break with Rome when both popu...
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