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Ages of Woman, Ages of Man: Sources of European Social History, 1400-1750
Ages of Woman Ages of Man Sources of European Social History 14001750 Author:Merry Wiesner Hanks, Monica Chojnacka This broad focus source book brings together a wide and exciting range of written and visual sources from all over Europe - from Iceland and the Azores to Russia and the Ottoman Empire - and includes materials on men and masculinity along with women, making its focus truly gender and not women. The collection is organized ar... more »ound two main principles, stages of life and gender, and is divided into eight chapters: childhood, youth and sexuality, courtship and weddings, married life, economic life, networks and communities, and widowhood and old age. The sources address the numerous and varied ways in which women and men's notions of themselves affected their lives, and explores how accepted norms of masculine and feminine behavior influenced social, economic, and religious change. The authors include a wide range of types of documents rarely found in readers, including court cases involving same-sex relationships, Inquisition records regarding blasphemy, bigamy, and abandonment, a midwife's diary, love letters, popular stories, testimonies regarding spousal abuse, and healing spells. A sourcebook for writers, scholars, students or anyone interested in European history and specifically gender history.« less