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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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Modern hospitality : medieval foundations [PDF]
, 2008 This paper reports on continuing doctoral research and specifically focuses on the development and regulation of hospitality in the Western European monasteries, from the beginning of the Middle Ages through to the Renaissance.
O'Gorman, Kevin D
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico ...
Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño
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Valuing Water with Gratitude and Restraint: A Catholic Theological Imperative [PDF]
, 2010 An overview of some patristic and medieval theological teachings on water and other goods of creation provides key perspectives on our valuing and our use of ...
Schaefer, Jame
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Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
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Faith, Reason and Theology: Questions 1-4 of His Commentary on the \u27De Trinitate\u27 of Boethius [PDF]
, 1989 Reviewed Book: Thomas, Aquinas, Saint. Faith, Reason and Theology: Questions 1-4 of His Commentary on the De Trinitate of Boethius.
Erb, Peter C.
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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
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Patristica et Mediaevalia, 1991 Congreso sobre el pensamiento político medieval (Lisboa – 5 al 8 de junio de 1991) // 28. Medievistentagung Colonia. 8-11 de septiembre de 1992 // Primer Encuentro Patrístico Argentino // Centro de Información Patrística (CIP) // Una reedición oportuna /
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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“Of the Ruin and Conquest of Britain”: The Anglo-Saxon Transformation of the British Isles
, 2015 The history of Britain after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire has traditionally been perceived as one of invasion and domination at the hands of Germanic peoples most commonly known as the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.
Caswell, Bryan G.
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