Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 7311
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Farmer , Sharon.
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  • Title: The Beggar's Body: Intersections of Gender and Social Status in High Medieval Paris [The author argues that gender must be viewed within a matrix of other factors including social status; she examines the case of lower status men who, in the eyes of the elite, had an association with the body as did women].
  • Source: Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society. Essays in Honor of Lester K. Little.  Edited by Sharon Farmer and Barbara H. Rosenwein.  Cornell University Press, 2000.  Pages 153 - 171.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Body Gender Hagiography Masculinity Miracles Miracles of Saint Louis, French Text of a Latin Transcript of an Inquest Paris Social Class
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 13- 14
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of California, Santa Barbara
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  • Year of Publication: 2000.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0801434459