Annotation
The course introduces students to gender history. We will pay attention to analytical conceptual apparatus of gender studies, to broader developments of gender history and topics such as the world upside down, advice literature for household heads, manuals for midwives etc. There will be special focus on material and examples from Central and East-Central European contexts. The main emphasis will be on reading and discussing texts. The course will be taught in blocs in April and May. Please note that no absence is possible since course has an intensive shortened form.
Course Bibliography:
Veronika Čapská, Framing a Young Nun's Initiation: Early Modern Convent Entry Sermons in the Habsburg Lands. Vestiges of a Lost Oral Culture. Austrian History Yearbook, 45, 2014, pp. 33−60.
Natalie Z. Davis, Women on Top. Symbolic Sexual Inversion and Political Disorder in Early Modern Europe, in: The Reversible World: Symbolic Inversion in Art and Society, Ithaca, NY, 1978, pp. 147-190.
John M. Klassen, The Public and Domestic Faces of Ulrich of Rožmberk, Sixteenth Century Journal 31, 2000, 3, pp. 699-718.
John M. Klassen – Eva Doležalová – Lynn Szabo (edd.), The Letters of the Rožmberk Sisters: Noblewomen in Fifteenth Century Bohemia, Cambridge, D. S. Brewer 2001.
Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, From Priestʼs Whore to Pastorʼs Wife. Clerical Marriage and the Process of Reform in the Early German Reformation, Farnham 2012.
Ulinka Rublack (ed.), Gender in Early Modern German History, Cambridge, CUP 2002.
Merry E. Wiesner, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge, CUP 1993.
Merry E. Wiesner Hanks, Gender Theory and the Study of Early Modern Europe, in: Megan Cassidy-Welch – Peter Sherlock (eds.), Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Turnhout, Brepols 2008, pp. 7-23.