Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 15184
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Devroey , Jean-Pierre.
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  • Title: Femmes au mirroir des polyptyques: une approche des rapports du couple dans l'exploitation rurale dépendante entre Seine et Rhin au IXe siècle [The author argues that the history of women can only be fully understood when it is considered along with the history of men. Using ninth century polyptiques, the author analyzes women's and men's roles for peasants, serfs, and the unfree. He also suggests reasons for the smaller numbes of women and larger numbers of men in the rural populations. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Femmes et pouvoirs des femmes à Byzance et en Occident (VIe -XIe siècles). Colloque international organisé les 28, 29 et 30 mars 1996 à Bruxelles et Villeneuve d'Ascq.  Edited by Stéphane Lebecq, Alain Dierkens, Régine Le Jan, and Jean-Marie Sansterre.  Centre de Recherche sur l'Histoire de l'Europe du Nord-Ouest, Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3, 1999.  Pages 227 - 249.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Ancilla (Latin: Woman Slave) Carolingian Empire Demography Gender Peasantry Polyptychs, Registers Serfs Sex Ratio Sexual Division of Labor Slaves Textiles- Production Work
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  • Geographic Area: France;Germany
  • Century: 9
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  • Table: Six Tables. Table One Tasks for men, for women, and for both from records at Mehring, a property belonging to the abbey of Präm. Table Two Tasks for men, for women, and for both from the polyptique from the abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims for the property Sault-Saint Remi. Table Three Tasks for men and form women from the abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims for Viel-Saint-Remi. Table Four Number of men, number of women, and rate of males by age group from the polyptique of the abbey of Saint-Victor at Marseille. Table Five Rate of males for children and for adults from the abbey of Saint-Remi at Reims. Table Six Rate of males for the adult population according to their place of residence and type of property from the abbey of Saint-Remi.
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  • Year of Publication: 1999.
  • Language: French
  • ISSN/ISBN: 2905637358