Jean Gerson and Gender Rhetoric and Politics in Fifteenth-Century Fr
Jean Gerson and Gender examines the deployment of gendered rhetoric by the influential late medieval politically active theologian, Jean Gerson (1363-1429), as a means of understanding his reputation for political neutrality, the role played by royal wome
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Genders and Sexualities in History Series Editors: John H. Arnold, Joanna Bourke and Sean Brady
Historical studies of gender and sexuality have often been treated as disconnected fields, while in recent years historical analyses in these two areas have synthesized, creating new departures in historiography. By linking genders and sexualities with questions of religion, civil society, politics and the contexts of war and conflict, this series will reflect recent developments in scholarship, moving away from the previously dominant and narrow histories of science, scientific thought and legal processes. The result brings together scholarship from contemporary, modern, early modern, medieval, classical and non-Western history to provide a diachronic forum for scholarship that incorporates new approaches to genders and sexualities in history. Jean Gerson and Gender focuses upon one of the most important and influential writers of the late Middle Ages. Jean Gerson was Chancellor of the University of Paris, a key figure in the reform movement of the fifteenth century, and a prolific author of both learned and popular tracts. McLoughlin’s imaginative and original monograph traces Gerson’s use of gendered imagery and language in the fraught context of fifteenth-century politics. She demonstrates not only that what has previously been seen as a personal strand of misogyny in his writing was in fact linked to wider issues of political discourse, but also how his use of gendered rhetoric shifted over time, with wider unintended consequences. Her book presents not only an important new reading of this particular figure, but provides an exemplary model for taking ‘gender’ seriously as a structuring principle in political discourse more widely. Titles include: John H. Arnold and Sean Brady (editors) WHAT IS MASCULINITY? Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World Valeria Babini, Chiara Beccalossi and Lucy Riall (editors) ITALIAN SEXUALITIES UNCOVERED, 1789–1914 Heike Bauer and Matthew Cook (editors) QUEER 1950s Cordelia Beattie and Kirsten A. Fenton (editors) INTERSECTIONS OF GENDER, RELIGION AND ETHNICITY IN THE MIDDLE AGES Chiara Beccalossi FEMALE SEXUAL INVERSION Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c. 1870–1920
10.1057/9781137488831 - Jean Gerson and Gender, Nancy McLoughlin
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Palgrave Macmillan’s series, Genders and Sexualities in History, aims to accommodate and foster new approaches to historical research in the fields of genders and sexualit
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