Katharine Sykes

Symbolic Reproduction in Early Medieval England (eBook, PDF)

Secular and Monastic Households

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Produktbeschreibung

Katharine Sykes examines a new type of household to emerge in early medieval England: the monastic household. Reproducing through education and training, rather than biological means, monastic households introduce new ideas of spiritual, non-biological reproduction to their royal and secular counterparts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192659125
• Artikelnr.: 72246989

Autorenporträt

Katharine Sykes is Associate Professor in Early Medieval History at the University of Birmingham. She studied Modern History (Oxford) and Medieval Studies (York), before completing a DPhil in Medieval History at Oxford. She held a series of research and teaching posts, including the John Cowdrey Junior Research Fellowship in Medieval History at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, before joining the University of Birmingham in 2016.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Abbreviations
* Introduction: the household in early medieval England
* 1: The reproduction of mothering: reconfiguring households in the
seventh and eighth centuries
* 2: The traffic in women: gender, value, and exchange, 600-850
* 3: The mirror stage: reforming royal and monastic households,
c.850-c.1100
* 4: Speculum of the other woman: embroidering maternal genealogies,
c.950-c.1100
* Conclusions: the reproduction of households in early medieval England
* Bibliography
* Index