Focusing on areas such as literature, hagiography, history, and art history, from the Anglo-Saxon period to the early sixteenth century, this title examines the ways men and women lived, negotiated, and challenged prevailing conceptions of gender and sexual identity.
Transcending both academic disciplines and traditional categories of analysis, this collection illustrates the ways genders and sexualities could be constructed, subverted and transformed.
Engaging with current academic debates over the complexities and pluralities of gender identity in the Middle Ages, this volume is one of the first collections to show how the themes of gender construction, subversion and transformation are applicable to a wide range of fields. …
Die Disputation ist ein Streitgespräch nach festen Regeln, das den mittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Universitätsbetrieb prägte, als Gattung und Interaktionsform aber auch Wirkungen darüber hinaus entfaltete. Die Merkmale der Gattung sowie deren wissensvermittelnde, sozial…
