Brubaker, Leslie, and Julia M. H. Smith, eds.: Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300-900.(Book Review)

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Brubaker, Leslie, and Julia M. H. Smith, eds. Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300-900 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 333 pp., $80.00 cloth, $29.99 paper ISBN 0-521-81347-6 cloth ISBN 0-521-01327-5 paper Publication Date: January 2005

This book features sixteen essays. First is an introduction, which suggests why early medieval studies (which is here equated with late antique studies) deserves to be studied in light of recent developments in the field of gender studies. Next, there are seven essays that examine gender in late antique, Byzantine, and ...

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