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Medieval Single Women

The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England

By: Cordelia Beattie

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Medieval Single Women

The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England

By: Cordelia Beattie

The single woman is a troubling and disruptive category. Does it denote all unmarried women, therefore creating a group which every female was part of at some stage in her life? Or, were the categories 'maiden' and 'widow' so culturally significant in late medieval England that 'single woman' was a residual category for women seen as anomalous? Was the category 'single man' used in an equivalent way and, if not, why? This study offers a way into the complex process of social classification in late medieval England. All societies use classifications in order to understand and impose order. In this book, Cordelia Beattie views classification as a political act, an act of power: those classifying must make choices about which divisions are most important or about who falls into which category, and such choices have repercussions. Defining how a group or an individual should be labelled, means variables such as social status, gender, or age, are prioritized. Rather than isolate gender as a variable, this book examines how it relates to other social cleavages. Using a variety of approaches, from social and cultural history, to gender history, and medieval studies, its original methodology offers an innovative approach to a range of historical texts, from pastoral manuals to tax returns, and guild registers.

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208

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OUP Oxford

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ISBN 10

0191557870

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9780191557873

Social Imagery in Middle Low German

Didactical Literature and Metaphorical Representation (1470-1517)

By: Cordelia Hess,Cordelia Heß

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Social Imagery in Middle Low German

Didactical Literature and Metaphorical Representation (1470-1517)

By: Cordelia Hess,Cordelia Heß

Social imagery during the Late Middle Ages was typically considered to be dominated by the three orders oratores, bellatores, laboratores as the most common way of describing social order, along with body metaphors and comprehensive lists of professions as known from the Danse macabre tradition. None of these actually dominates within the vast genre of lay didactical literature. This book comprises the first systematic investigation of social imagery from a specific late medieval linguistic context. It methodically catalogues images of the social that were used in a particular cultural/literary sphere, and it separates late medieval efforts at catechization in print from the social and religious ruptures that are conventionally thought to have occurred after 1517. The investigation thus compliments recent scholarship on late medieval vernacular literature in Germany, most of which has concentrated on southern urban centres of production. The author fills a major lacuna in this field by concentrating for the first time on the entire extant corpus of vernacular print production in the northern region dominated by the Hanseatic cities and the Middle Low German dialect.

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416

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BRILL

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9004204954

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9789004204959

Medieval Single Women

The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England

By: Cordelia Beattie

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Medieval Single Women

The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England

By: Cordelia Beattie

In a culture in which marriage was the desirable norm, and virginity was particularly prized in females, the categories 'virgin' and 'widow' held particular significance. This book investigates the uses of the category 'single woman'. The law gave unmarried women legal rights and responsibilities that were generally withheld from married women. The pervasiveness of religion and the law in people's day-to-day lives led to a complex interplay between moral and economic concerns in how medieval women were seen. As a result they were marked out as 'single women' in very different contexts, and his study reveals the multiplicity of ways in which dominant cultural ideas impacted on them.

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194

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199283419

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9780199283415

The Floral Kingdom

By: Cordelia Harris Turner

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The Floral Kingdom

By: Cordelia Harris Turner

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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446

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385538904

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9783385538900

Lessons on Caffeine, Cannabis & Co

Plant-derived Drugs and their Interaction with Human Receptors

By: Angelika Böttger,Ute Vothknecht,Cordelia Bolle,Alexander Wolf

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Plant-derived Drugs and their Interaction with Human Receptors

By: Angelika Böttger,Ute Vothknecht,Cordelia Bolle,Alexander Wolf

This textbook provides a structured, easy to understand and thorough insight into the mode of function of plant secondary metabolites in plants and humans. It explains the biosynthesis and molecular action of nicotine, cannabis, caffeine and Co, describes the effects of these drugs on signal transduction at receptors and ion channels in animals, their relevance for human health and their potential for recreational use and abuse. It also offers a broad and comprehensive understanding on the role and function of these diverse molecules for the plants that make them. This textbook is written for master students and scientist in biochemistry and biology as well as for pharmaceutical and medical students. It will be a valuable study tool for teachers and students alike.

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222

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Springer

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3319995464

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