Intersections of Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages [Paperback]

This collection of essays focuses attention on how medieval gender intersects with other categories of difference, particularly religion and ethnicity. It treats the period c.800-1500, with a particular focus on the era of the Gregorian reform movement, the First Crusade, and its linked attacks on Jews at home.List of Tables Acknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction: Gender, Power, and Difference; C.Beattie 'In what way can those who have left the world be distinguished?': Masculinity and the Difference between Carolingian Men; R.Stone Ruling Masculinities: From Adam to Apollonius of Tyre in Corpus 201b; C.Braun Pasternack The Tears of Bishop Gundulf: Gender, Religion and Emotion in the Late Eleventh Century; W.M.Aird Medieval Jewish/Christian Debate and the Question of Gender: Gilbert Crispin's Disputatio Iudei et Christiani; S.F.Kruger Gender, Jewish Creditors and Christian Debtors in Thirteenth-Century Exeter; H.Meyer Gendering the First Crusade in William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum; K.A.Fenton Prince Bohemond, Princess Melaz, and the Gendering of Religious Difference in the Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis; S.Yarrow Chaucer's Viragos: A Postcolonial Engagement? A Case Study of the Man of Law's Tale, the Monk's Tale and the Knight's Tale; J.Dor Warriors, Amazons and Isles of Women: Medieval Travel Writing and Constructions of Asian Feminities; K.M.Phillips Notes Index

The essays are overall remarkably clear in their argumentation and conclusions, with well-justified, representative choices of primary material and concise discussions of the most relevant secondary sources . . . rewarding reading for both a specialized and general audience. - Stephanie Knauss, University of Cologne, Germany, Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal

This volume is to be applauded for bringing together examinations of both masculinity and femininity, as gender difference is interrogated in both directions. - Margaret Cottel³5