Ruth Mazo Karras: Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others

UK 2017 (3rd edition), 258 pp., brochure, € 69.95
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Routledge
Challenging the way the Middle Ages have been treated in general histories of sexuality, Sexuality in Medieval Europe shows how views at the time were conflicted and complicated; there was no single medieval attitude towards sexuality any more than there is one modern attitude. Focusing on marital sexual activity, as well as behavior that was seen as transgressive, the chapters ... Weiterlesen

Nicola Griffith: Hild

USA 2013, 546 pp., hardbound, € 26.95
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hild is born into a world in transition. In 7th-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, usually violently. A new religion is coming ashore. The old gods' priests are worried. Edwin of Northumbria plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Hild is the king's youngest niece. She has the powerful curiosity ... Weiterlesen

Seymour Phillips: Edward II

USA/UK 2010, 679 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 44.95
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Edward II, King of England, Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitaine, was the object of ignominy during his lifetime and has been defamed ever since. Conventionally viewed as worthless, incapable of sustained policy and significant only for his sporadic displays of ill-directed energy or stubborn adherence to ambitious favourites, he has been presented as fit only to be deposed ... Weiterlesen

Sharon Farmer and Carol B. Pasternack (eds.): Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages

USA 2003, 354 pp., brochure, € 44.95
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University of Minnesota Press
Nothing less than a rethinking of what we mean when we talk about »men« and »women« of the medieval period, this volume demonstrates how the idea of gender - in the Middle Ages no less than now - intersected in subtle and complex ways with other categories of difference. Responding to the insights of postcolonial and feminist theory, the authors ... Weiterlesen

Paul Doherty: Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II

USA 2003, 262 pp., cloth, € 29.95
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The daughter of Philip IV of France, Queen Isabella of England was married to Edward II in 1308, when she was just 12 years old. The marriage was intended to create lasting peace between both countries. Isabella was a loyal wife at first, though Edward soon became notorious for his rackety life, his »favourites«, Piers Gaveston and the more sinister ... Weiterlesen

Mark D. Jordan: The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology

UK 1997, 200 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Oxford University Press
This text explores the invention of sodomy in medieval Christendom, examining its conceptual foundations in theology and gauging its impact on Christian sexual ethics both then and now. It traces the historical genealogy of this enduring cultural construct through many of the idiosyncratic worldviews of the Middle Ages - worldviews at war with themselves in their attitudes toward sex, love ... Weiterlesen