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Same Bodies, Different Women: 'Other' Women in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

Same Bodies, Different Women: 'Other' Women in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

Mielke, Christopher
Znorovszky, Andrea-Bianka

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Series: History and Art, Book 2

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 615812222X
ISBN13: 9786158122221
Publisher: Trivent Publishing
Published: Dec 31 2019
Pages: 223
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.84 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
This volume is a collection of essays focusing on marginalized women mostly in Central and Eastern Europe from around 1350 to 1650. Other women are discussed in three different categories: women whose religious practices put them on the social margins, common women who are in society but not of society because they are in the sex trade, and women whose occupations were reason enough to shunt them. In order to fill a gap in gender history for countries east of the Rhine River, the studies included present how official city-funded brothels in medieval Austria worked, how a princess' disability affected her life as Byzantine empress, how one unmarried Transylvanian woman who got pregnant dealt with being the center of a court case, and how enslaved women in medieval Hungary were treated as sexual property. The hope with this volume is that it will show the many interdisciplinary ways that women on the margins can be studied in this region, and to diminish the taboo of discussing this topic to begin with.

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