Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 3383
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Stuard , Susan Mosher.
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  • Title: Burdens of Matrimony: Husbanding and Gender in Medieval Italy [The author argues that the emerging role for husbands as the custodians of their wives and their wives' properties restricted men's lives].
  • Source: Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages.  Edited by Clare A. Lees with the assistance of Thelma Fenster and Jo Ann McNamaraMedieval Cultures, 7.  University of Minnesota Press, 1994.  Pages 61 - 71. Later reprinted in Debating the Middle Ages: Issues and Readings. Edited by Lester K. Little and Barbara H. Rosenwein. Blackwell Publishers, 1998. Pages 290-298. Also reprinted in Considering Medieval Women and Gender. Susan Mosher Stuard. Ashgate Variorum, 2010. Chapter III.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Dowries Gender Husbands Marriage
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 12-13
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  • Author's Affiliation: Haverford College
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  • Year of Publication: 1994.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0816624259