Women in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Studies from Western Europe and North Africa
Edited by Maijastina Kahlos Edited by Éric Fournier
This collection of essays examines the lives of women of all classes during the centuries after the ‘fall of Rome’ across the various ‘Barbarian’ kingdoms of the Western Mediterranean and Europe.
This collection of essays examines the lives of women of all classes during the centuries during and after the ‘fall of Rome’ across the various ‘Barbarian’ kingdoms of the Western Mediterranean and Europe. In order to address an important gap in current scholarship on women and gender in the post-Roman Western kingdoms, these contributions were assembled based on a series of panels presented at the Leeds International Medieval Conference in 2022. The volume focuses particularly on a bottom-up perspective, to analyse the place, role, and experiences of women in the daily life of the period, and on how such an approach might alter our view of the social, cultural, and religious history of these kingdoms. Limited by our sources, however, we also investigate the absence of women and gender concerns in our texts, and look for alternative fonts of knowledge, such as material culture, archaeology, poetry and epigraphy. The collection enriches our knowledge of women and gender in early medieval Western Europe and North Africa, especially by paying close attention to the social and cultural realities of lower-class women during this period.
- Edited by Maijastina Kahlos
- Edited by Éric Fournier
Other Titles in this Series
D’Orient en Occident
Les recueils de fables enchassees avant les Mille et une Nuits de Galland (Barlaam et Josaphat, Calila et Dimna, Disciplina clericalis, Roman des Sept Sages)
Volume 16
Incubation in Early Byzantium
The Formation of Christian Incubation Cults and Miracle Collections
Volume 41
Transforming Landscapes of Belief in the Early Medieval Insular World and Beyond
Converting the Isles II
Volume 23
Political Ritual and Practice in Capetian France
Essays in Honour of Elizabeth A. R. Brown
Volume 34
Liturgy and Sequences of the Sainte-Chapelle
Music, Relics, and Sacral Kingship in Thirteenth-Century France
Volume 35
Carolingian Scholarship and Martianus Capella
Ninth-Century Commentary Traditions on 'De nuptiis' in Context
Volume 12
Les transferts culturels dans les mondes normands medievaux (VIIIe-XIIe siecle)
objets, acteurs et passeurs
Volume 36
From Sun-Day to the Lord’s Day
The Cultural History of Sunday in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Volume 39
Motions of Late Antiquity
Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society in Honour of Peter Brown
Volume 20
Writing ‘True Stories’
Historians and Hagiographers in the Late Antique and Medieval Near East
Volume 9
Historiography and Identity V
The Emergence of New Peoples and Polities in Europe, 1000-1300
Volume 31
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