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...Douglas Biow Beards, both real and fake, acquire a special status in Giordano Bruno's Candelaio as symbolically charged objects that reveal not only much about the characters and their functions within the play, but also much about social norms and expectations regarding the performance of male...

... and normative authority of nature, but also in complex dialogue with contemporary pastoral theory and moral philosophy (which rejected wet-nursing), as well as contemporary social practices, values, and beliefs. Physicians recognized maternal breastfeeding as the best and most natural option because...

.... Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Old English Fortunes of Men human fate death and consolation alliterative long line social norms The first half of the Old English poem known as The Fortunes of Men , sometimes called The Fates of Men or The Fates of Mortals , offers...

...- reflexive functions of shame and conscience, he recognizes that shame is often linked to external observance of certain social norms. While the sense of shame discloses inner motives, shame in the face of witnesses sim- ply fosters social conformity. The Latin idea of shame as respect for others manifests...

... observed accounts of bee sociality in the service of maintaining the power of the bee “polity” to analogize, and thereby to authorize, prevailing norms such as gender hierarchy in govern- ment, the superior usefulness of male labor, or the chastity and monogamy of women. The metaphorical aptitude...

... that performative identities are normatively scripted — socially as well as materially — the liberatory promise of gender’s performativity captures a self-­making fantasy.8 By con- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 43:2, Spring 2013 DOI 10.1215/108296362081987  © 2013...

... as prompting the need for stricter policy. Unnamed nuns across Europe were violating social and religious norms, engaging in dangerous conduct as they “roved about” European cities and hence purportedly necessitating tighter regulation and stronger male oversight of their communities.11 However...

... and the Byzantine sociology of knowledge, self-perpetuating constructions that helped to formulate thought and underpin social norms. 89 484Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 33.3 / 2003 Notes 1Hence one is grateful for the welcome collection edited by S. Elm, E. Rébillard...

..., therefore, is not a matter to be taken at face value any more than any other historical construct. Rather, it must be questioned and its norms and social tensions analyzed. 8 Such norms can be set in many ways, but when they are accepted, they form cultural and social scripts for experiencing the world...

... women make the best of con- temporary property and other power relations in their own self-interest, but rather those that reject oppressive social norms altogether, we might move closer to understanding how early modern women could progressively imag- ine a more generally humane social order...

... Experience in Early Modern Finland,” investigates the ways a limited community among laypeople of different social statuses was created through modifying the normative experience of Communion. By starting from the central Middle Ages and advancing in time through the seventeenth century, we hope to show...

... to moral reflection not only disaggregates right from good, but in so doing hastens the shift from virtue ethics to a consequentialist model of social relations; remedial (legal) action has effectively shorn civic reason of all normative (a priori) constraints and, also, of all...

... of articles of clothing or accessories to different social groups. While general admonitions to moderation accompanied by types of exceptions or exemptions characterize the norms of the second half of the thirteenth and the fourteenth century, in the fifteenth century we find a partitioning of society...

... by such an exchange; the relative roles of the men and women involved—all these aspects are central to social structure. They all, ultimately, require the gendering of human actors, and gender identities, in the end, are defined in relation to the relative ability to take an active part in normative heterosexual...

... members of the dyad. The aldermen’s routine use of gender- specific dyadic formulas reveals that the social and economic participation of women in Douai was perceived not as exceptional or “marked,” but rather as the norm, virtually on par with that of males. And while...

... 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...

... When the field of performance studies first emerged, it borrowed from older disciplines, like the social anthropology of Victor Turner and speech act theory of J. L. Austin, to propose something entirely new—that scholars decenter the written word and focus instead on the embodied actions that also...

... for women’s status, with the exception of aristocratic women, appear to have been negative.5 Scholars agree that in terms of gender arrangements, a war- based social order tends to devalue femininity and male effeminacy.6 The result is a decline in the esteem of women and scorn for receptive (i.e., “fem...

... “ecosociability,” the stance reached by wisdom traditions around the world that intuit the “entwinements of natural, human, and spirit realms, and that identify the good with what preserves, achieves, or renews material and social human wellbeing.” 10 David Aers recovers a similar ethics of “kindness” in his...

... the woman he desires; but that failure presupposes Antiochus’s subversion of the law of his own fatherhood—to wit, that according to the “natural” order of things, he is to give his daughter away in marriage and so forge a primary social bond to another man. Apollonius’s heterosexual fail- ure may...