Gender and Material Culture Roberta Gilchrist

Name: Gender and Material Culture par Roberta Gilchrist
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Gender and Material Culture Roberta Gilchrist

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Résumé

Reveals, through a close comparison of monasteries for men and women, stark contrasts in the social and economic status of these religious foundations. The book provides the first complete case study in the applied archaeology of gender.

Gender and Material Culture Résumé

Gender and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Religious Women Roberta Gilchrist

Gender and Material Culture is the first complete study in the archaeology of gender, exploring the differences between the religious life of men and women. Gender in medieval monasticism influenced landscape contexts and strategies of economic management, the form and development of buildings and their symbolic and iconographic content. Women's religious experience was often poorly documented, but their archaeology indicates a shared tradition which was closely linked with, and valued by local communities. The distinctive patterns observed suggest that gender is essential to archaeological analysis.

Gender and Material Culture Avis

'This is an intriguing and truly interesting book' - Antiquity

'This book fills a major gap, and is published at a moment when there is considerable new interest in the monastic architecture of women ... [Gilchrist establishes] the issue of women's archaeology within the wider context of cultural and social analysis.' - Carolone Bruzelius, Director, American Academy in Rome

'Roberta Gilchrist has introduced a new dimension into this area of study, and ably demonstrated how an analysis of material culture can inform our knowledge of the gendered identities of both female and male religions.' - Gender & History Journal

'An impressive synthesis of evidence and interpretation' - Times Higher Education Supplement

'Her multidisciplinary approach and clear theoretical background inspire new paths for research and interpretation of both old and new archaeological and historical data' - Archaeology Ireland

À propos de Roberta Gilchrist

Roberta Gilchrist is a reader in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Reading, and consultant archaeologist to Norwich Cathedral. She has written widely on the topics of gender and church archaeolgy.

Sommaire

List of tables and figures, Preface, Acknowledgements, List of Abbreviations, 1 THE HANDMAID'S TALE, 2 MAPPING WOMEN'S RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES, 3 NUNNERIES IN THE MEDIEVAL LANDSCAPE, 4 IN THE CLOISTER, 5 THE MEANINGS OF NUNNERY ARCHITECTURE, 6 SYMBOLISM AND SECLUSION, 7 AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF ALTERNATIVES, 8 CONCLUSIONS: GENDER AND MEDIEVAL MONASTICISM, Bibliography, Index

Informations supplémentaires

Sku

GOR006261465

ISBN 13

9780415156561

ISBN 10

0415156564

Titre

Gender and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Religious Women Roberta Gilchrist

Auteur

Roberta Gilchrist

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Éditeur

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Année de publication

19970313

Nombre de pages

240

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