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Sex, Rett Og Reformasjon
Based on legislation and legal practice from the period c. 1250-1600 the book takes issue with the most important viewpoints in earlier research by early modernists: that the Reformation represented a watershed in a development characterized by greater criminalisation of sexual acts, increase in the severity of sentences and deterioration of the position of women. According to this study, in principle all or mostly all factors were already in place in the Middle Ages. In Norwegian historiography the period investigated is characterized by paucity of sources, and the period has tended to fall between two stools, respectively the medievalist and the early modernist. The ambition of this book has been to bridge the gap.
Hopes for Better Spouses
Modern Protestant debates about spousal relations and the meaning of marriage began in a forgotten international dispute some 300 years ago. The Lutheran-Pietist ideal of marriage as friendship and mutual pursuit of holiness battled with the idea that submission defined spousal roles. Exploiting material culture artifacts, broadsides, hymns, sermons, private correspondence, and legal cases on three continents -- Europe, Asia, and North America -- A. G. Roeber reconstructs the roots and the dimensions of a continued debate that still preoccupies international Protestantism and its Catholic and Orthodox critics and observers in the twenty-first century.
The Right to Dress
This is the first global history of dress regulation and its place in broader debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised. Sumptuary laws were a tool on the part of states to regulate not only manufacturing systems and moral economies via the medium of expenditure and consumption of clothing but also banquets, festivities and funerals. Leading scholars on Asian, Latin American, Ottoman and European history shed new light on how and why items of dress became key aspirational goods across society, how they were lobbied for and marketed, and whether or not sumptuary laws were implemented by cities, states and empires to restrict or channel trade and consumption. Their findings reveal the significance of sumptuary laws in medieval and early modern societies as a site of contestation between individuals and states and how dress as an expression of identity developed as a modern 'human right'.
The Troll Inside You
What do medieval Icelanders mean when they say "troll"? What did they see when they saw a troll? What did the troll signify to them? And why did they see them? The principal subject of this book is the Norse idea of the troll, which the author uses to engage with the larger topic of paranormal experiences in the medieval North. The texts under study are from 13th-, 14th-, and 15th-century Iceland. The focus of the book is on the ways in which paranormal experiences are related and defined in these texts and how those definitions have framed and continue to frame scholarly interpretations of the paranormal. The book is partitioned into numerous brief chapters, each with its own theme. In each...
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Häpeä!
Vatsaa kivistää ja posket punoittavat. Häpeän tunne on sekä tuskallisen yksityinen että kaikille tuttu. Häpeän kokemus ja pelko on ohjannut ihmisten käyttäytymistä halki vuosisatojen. Aikoinaan Egyptissä yritettiin sopeutua kauneusihanteisiin poistamalla ihokarvoja, ja keskiajan Euroopassa häpeän pelättiin tarttuvan ihmisestä toiseen. Vaikka häpeää vältellään, toisten kokemana se myös kiehtoo. Häpäiseminen onkin ollut osa niin 1800-luvun freak show -esityksiä kuin nykyajan tv-viihdettä. Häpeä! on historioitsija Satu Lidmanin syväluotaava katsaus vaikeaan tunteeseen. Kirja tutkii häpeän merkityksiä niin historian, eri kulttuurien kuin nykyihmisten haastatteluj...
