Revisiting Gender in European History, 1400–1800

Elise M. Dermineur, Åsa Karlsson Sjögren, Virginia Langum, Elise M. Dermineur, Åsa Karlsson Sjögren, Virginia Langum

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781351744690
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Historiography
• Index: History

Do women have a history? Did women have a renaissance? These were provocative questions when they were raised in the heyday of women's studies in the 1970s. But how relevant does gender remain to premodern history in the twenty-first century? This book considers this question in eight new case studies that span the European continent from 1400 to 1800. An introductory essay examines the category of gender in historiography and specifically within premodern historiography, as well as the issue of source material for historians of the period. The eight individual essays seek to examine gender in relation to emerging fields and theoretical considerations, as well as how premodern history contributes to traditional concepts and theories within women's and gender studies, such as patriarchy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Anatomy of Early Modern Patriarchy
• 2 Gender and the Underground Economy in the Western French Alps
• 3 Theorizing Crime and Gender in a Long-Term Perspective
• 4 Poor Girls’ Schooling and Transitions of Gender and Class
• 5 Medicine, Female Mystics and Illness Experience
• 6 Love and Friendship Between Lower Order Scottish Men: Or What the History of Emotions Has Brought to Early Modern Gender History
• 7 Making Power: Gender, Materiality, Performativity and Catherine de’ Medici
• 8 Gender Performance in Early Modern Religious Life
• Contributors
• Index