Gender and material culture : the archaeology of religious women

Author

Gilchrist, Roberta

Document type

Livre

Language

English

Source

73 ill.; maps; plans; bibliogr.; index ; xiii, 222 p. ; 1994

ISBN

0-415-089034

Publisher

Routledge, London (gbr)

Publication country

United Kingdom

Abstract (en)

An examination of the relationship between material culture and the social construction of gender in later medieval English monasticism through a detailed archaeological case study of medieval women's religious communities. Shows how gender influenced landscape contexts and strategies of economic management, the form and development of buildings and their symbolic and iconographic content. Concludes with an appraisal of the use of gender as an analytical category in the study of medieval monasticism.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 300-1400 -- Architecture and excavations -- United Kingdom
• Methodology
• Archaeology
• Gender (sex)
• Great Britain
• Medieval
• Religious orders
• Women
• Monasteries
• England (GBR)
• Land use
• Construction
• Symbolism
• Iconography

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 300-1400 -- Architecture et fouilles -- Royaume-Uni
• Méthodologie
• Archéologie
• Sexe (catégorie)
• Grande-Bretagne
• Moyen Age
• Ordres religieux
• Femmes
• Abbaye
• England (GBR)
• Utilisation du territoire
• Construction
• Symbolisme
• Iconographie

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19950101-00311177

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