...Stanley Chojnacki This essay examines the social orientation of married and widowed Venetian patricians in the fifteenth century as expressed in their election of final resting places. Comparing the choices of women and men reveals sharp contrasts by gender in burial patronage of lineage...

...Sharon Kinoshita © by Duke University Press 2001 JMEMS31.1-04 Kinoshita 2/26/01 6:59 PM Page 79 a “Pagans are wrong and Christians are right”: Alterity, Gender...

...Sara S. Poor © by Duke University Press 2001 JMEMS31.2-01 Poor 4/30/01 9:33 AM Page 213 a Mechthild von Magdeburg, Gender, and the “Unlearned...

...Beverly Bossler © by Duke University Press 2004 Gender and Empire: A View from Yuan China Beverly Bossler University of California, Davis...

...Ellen E. Kittell; Kurt Queller © by Duke University Press 2000 JMEMS30.1-04-Kittell.63-100 12/21/99 4:33 PM Page 63 a “Whether man or woman”: Gender Inclusivity...

... recently, been bound by strict geographies. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 a Gender, the State, and Episcopal Authority: Hernando de Talavera and Richard Fox on Female...

... peoples of Catholic France and “New France”—through the lens of gender. In the case of early modern Atlantic dreaming, gender and its confusions in the social imaginary are not tied to the historical practice of female-bodied persons. The femininity investigated here is positional and symbolic...

..., and environmental causes of ill health, patients commonly attributed everyday disorders to their emotional responses to social stimuli, such as money problems, ruined relationships, or distressing news. The article argues that men and women perceived this physical process in gendered ways, according to patterns...

... can provide new insights into the interrelationship of gender and genre in the early modern period. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 early modern historical writing Benedictine monastic chronicles Claude Estiennot Anne Neville feminist formalism Journal of Medieval...

... the boundaries of London, including godly efforts abroad. 36 And yet, while Gouge’s advice to godly households has been a touchstone in the study of the history of gender and family in the early modern period, the contribution that household manuals made to godly thinking on matters of almsgiving and charity...

... textual modes of translation connect with translation’s role in subject formation in medieval texts, focusing on two narratives about female cross-dressing, the Vie de Sainte Euphrosine and the Roman de Silence . Gender emerges in these texts through multiple intersecting modes of translation which...

...Jessica A. Boon For thirteen years, the Clarissan Juana de la Cruz (1481 – 1534) gave public “sermones” during which Christ’s voice was reported to issue from her rapt body, expanding on the biblical record and describing festivities in heaven that feature considerable fluidity in gender...

... by the pressures of foreign trade. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 a “The Sign of the Last”: Gender, Material Culture, and Artisanal Nostalgia...

...Clare A. Lees; Gillian R. Overing © by Duke University Press 2004 Signifying Gender and Empire Clare A. Lees King’s College London London, United...

...Guy Halsall © by Duke University Press 2004 Gender and the End of Empire Guy Halsall University of York York, United Kingdom The problem...

...Sylvia Huot Duke University Press 2007 a Love, Race, and Gender in Medieval Romance: Lancelot and the Son of the Giantess...

...Whitney Trettien As early efforts to include women in the canon of Renaissance literature give way to gender-oriented research in material culture and book history, it is increasingly the scholar's task to marry the language of ideological negotiation to a more wide-ranging investigation...

... center on history (i.e., “story”) and theology, but also engage political topics: class, equality, governance, gender, the authority of reason, and conscience vis-à-vis that of tradition, custom, and culture. The essay focuses on these latter issues, that is to say, on the political opinions held...

... two years. Many will be presented here before they are ordered and shelved by libraries. The topics for this issue include: Editions and translations Reference Historiography, historians, and critical theory Biographical studies Medicine, science, and technology The body Sexuality Gender and works...

... to their cloisters. Revising our understanding of this legislation results in repositioning monastic women within the spiritual landscape of medieval Europe, and indicates that nuns in the high Middle Ages were not nearly as disadvantaged by gender expectations as previously believed. Further, it encourages us...