Title Gender and material culture : the archaeology of religious women / Roberta Gilchrist

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1994 (2005 printing)

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 222 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Cover; GENDER AND MATERIAL CULTURE: The archaeology of religious women; Copyright; CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; 1 THE HANDMAID'S TALE; 1.1 INTRODUCTION; 1.2 THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF GENDER; 1.3 'THE HANDMAID'S TALE': ON HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND SOCIAL THEORY; 1.4 'ENGENDERING' MEDIEVAL MONASTICISM: A THEORY OF GENDER AND MATERIAL CULTURE; 1.5 GENDER IDENTITY IN MEDIEVAL NUNNERIES; 2 MAPPING WOMEN'S RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES; 2.1 BREAKING ANDROCENTRIC TRADITIONS: AN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF NUNNERIES; 2.2 RELIGIOUS WOMEN IN THE SAXON LANDSCAPE 2.3 medieval religious foundations for women: numbers, status and distribution2.4 an archaeology of patronage; 2.5 conclusions: common interest groups in the medieval nunnery; 3 nunneries in the medieval landscape; 3.1 gender identities and the monastic landscape; 3.2 in a wilderness; 3.3 the nunnery estate; 3.4 home farms and outer courts; 3.5 production, consumption and labour in medieval nunneries; 3.6 conclusions: isolation and dependence; 4 in the cloister; 4.1 standard plans; 4.2 form and function of nunnery buildings; 4.3 development and change 4.4 conclusions: characteristics of nunnery planning5 the meanings of nunnery architecture; 5.1 the north cloister; 5.2 women on the north: spatial opposites and body metaphors; 5.3 the distribution of north cloisters: a saxon monastic tradition?; 5.4 iconographic architecture: the virgin at christ's right hand; 5.5 collective identities: the nunnery seal; 5.6 conclusions: an iconography of many meanings; 6 symbolism and seclusion; 6.1 gender and space; 6.2 religious imagery and the delineation of space; 6.3 formal spatial analysis of nunneries and monasteries for men 6.4 sexual segregation and gender domains7 an archaeology of alternatives; 7.1 beguinages: informal communities of urban religious women; 7.2 hospitals: a life of charity; 7.3 anchorages: the solitary religious woman; 7.4 hermitages: religious women beyond the pale?; 7.5 conclusions: the 'sinful woman'; 8 conclusions: gender and medieval monasticism; 8.1 patterns in the archaeology of religious women; 8.2 gender and material culture: habitus, agency and identity; 8.3 gender as an analytical category: new perspectives for medieval archaeology?; bibliography; index Summary 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 archaeol Analysis Catholicism Nuns History England Wales Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-211) and index Subject Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Great Britain -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 Women -- Great Britain -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 Convents -- Great Britain -- History Christian antiquities -- Great Britain Excavations (Archaeology) -- Great Britain Sex role -- Great Britain Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 Antiquities Christian antiquities Convents Excavations (Archaeology) Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Middle Ages Sex role Women -- Middle Ages Architektur Frauenkloster Opgravingen. Vrouwenkloosters. Monachisme et ordres religieux féminins -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- Moyen-Age. Femmes -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- Moyen-Age. Couvents -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire. Antiquités chrétiennes -- Grande-Bretagne. Geschichte 1050-1550. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056606 Great Britain -- Religious life and customs Subject Great Britain England Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 93009828 ISBN 9780203037126 020303712X

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