Publication Date:
2024-04-01
Description:
"In discussions relating to their role during the Middle Ages, women are typically assumed to only have been âpawns in a political game dominated by menâ, or to have primarily acted as intermediaries of power. In this book, however, the varying expressions of power are studied by changing the focus from a political and economic exercise of power controlled by men, to an approach based on interaction and communication between the sexes. In this volume, gender is instead interpreted as a total social phenomenon comprising all spheres of medieval society. This approach provides new opportunities to investigate how power operated on different levels within a societal structure. Thus, power is neither seen as emanating from a centre nor as dominated by only one sex. Instead, it is regarded as an all-embracing societal web, woven through threads of mutual dependence between men and women.
In this book, scholars belonging to various disciplines, such as history, history of arts and literary history, discuss how cooperation between the sexes found expression in culture, judicial spheres and social organisation. The contributions do not only consider the Nordic countries, but also how gender constructions were affected by, and transformed through, the influence of contemporary cultural, juridical and ideological currents in Europe.
Description:
Vanliga uppfattningar i diskussioner om kvinnornas roll under medeltiden Ă€r att de utgjorde âbrickor i mĂ€nnens politiska spelâ eller att de i första hand verkade som förmedlare av makt. I denna antologi studeras dock maktens olika uttrycksformer genom att fokus förflyttas frĂ„n politisk och ekonomisk maktutövning kontrollerad av mĂ€n till ett interaktionistiskt synsĂ€tt baserat pĂ„ samspelet och kommunikationen mellan könen. Genom att se pĂ„ genus som ett totalt socialt fenomen omfattande det medeltida samhĂ€llets alla sfĂ€rer öppnas möjligheter att undersöka hur makten verkade pĂ„ olika nivĂ„er inom samhĂ€llsstrukturen. Makten betraktas dĂ€rmed varken som utgĂ„ende frĂ„n ett centrum eller helt dominerad av ett kön. I boken diskuterar forskare tillhörande olika discipliner sĂ„som historia, konstvetenskap och litteraturvetenskap hur samverkan mellan könen tog sig uttryck inom kulturen, rĂ€ttssamhĂ€llet och den sociala organisationen. Bidragen behandlar inte bara Norden utan Ă€ven hur könskonstruktioner pĂ„verkades och förĂ€ndrades genom inflytande frĂ„n samtida kulturella, juridiska och ideologiska strömningar i Europa.
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Keywords:
nordic countries
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power
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middle ages
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upholders of culture
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gender constructions
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identity
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
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thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups
Language:
Swedish
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