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      Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages

      Ruth Mazo Karras

      Traditional marriage was not the only option for couples in medieval Europe. Alternative forms of union could make lives precarious but also provided a degree of flexibility. The study draws…

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      From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe

      Ruth Mazo Karras

      The book … will find a broad audience. It would work well in the classroom… Effectively combating the nonspecialist’s view of the Middle Ages as a monolithic and static society…

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      Thou Art the Man: The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages

      Ruth Mazo Karras

      Exploring the different configurations of David in biblical and Talmudic commentaries, in Latin, Hebrew, and vernacular literatures across Europe, in liturgy, and in the visual arts, Ruth Mazo Karras offers…

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      Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others

      Ruth Mazo Karras (University of Minnesota, USA)

      Rev. ed. of: Sexuality in medieval Europe: doing unto others. 2005.

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      Sexuality in Medieval Europe

      Ruth Mazo Karras, Katherine E. Pierpont

      Now in its fourth edition, Sexuality in Medieval Europe provides a lively account of a society whose attitudes toward sexuality both were ancestral to, and differed from, contemporary ones.

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      Sexuality in Medieval Europe

      Ruth Mazo Karras, Katherine E. Pierpont

      Now in its fourth edition, Sexuality in Medieval Europe provides a lively account of a society whose attitudes toward sexuality both were ancestral to, and differed from, contemporary ones.

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      The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe

      Provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E.

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      The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe

      Provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E.

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      Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England

      Ruth Mazo Karras (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Temple University)

      A common woman in medieval England was a prostitute, distinguished as such less for taking money for sex than for belonging to all men in common. Karras’s book tells the…

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      Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England

      Ruth Mazo Karras (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Temple University)

      An account of the lives of prostitutes in Medieval England relations, which covers their treatment under the law, and concludes that prostitution was central to the medieval understanding of feminity.

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      Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century

      Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century provides a multifaceted account of Jewish life in Europe and the Mediterranean basin at a time when economic, cultural…

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      Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe

      In the popular imagination, the Middle Ages are often associated with lawlessness. However, historians have long recognized that medieval culture was characterized by an enormous respect for law and legal…

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