Gender and Fraternal Orders in Europe, 1300–2000

Máire Fedelma Cross author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:30th Sep '10

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ROBERT BEACHY Associate Professor of European History, Goucher College, USA ROBERT COLLIS Honorary Research Fellow, University of Sheffield, UK M IRE CROSS Professor of French, School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University UK PAMELA KING Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Bristol, UK ANDREAS A-NNERFORS Director of the Centre for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism, University of Sheffield, UK RA"BERT PAeTER Senior Assistant Professor in the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged, Hungary ANDREW PRESCOTT Director of Research, the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow, UK JAMES SMITH ALLEN Professor of History, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA MEG TWYCROSS Emeritus Professor of English Medieval Studies, Lancaster University, UK DAN WEINBREN Chair of the Friendly Societies Research Group, The Open University, UK ANNE WINSTON-ALLEN Professor of German Studies, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA

What have medieval nuns, parrot shooting, Freemasonry, and Shetland revelry got in common? This study of monastic orders, guilds, Freemasonry and friendly societies over centuries and across frontiers provides new insights into their contribution to the gendering of public space and the evolution of 'separate spheres' in Europe.What have medieval nuns, parrot shooting, Freemasonry, and Shetland revelry got in common? This study of monastic orders, guilds, Freemasonry and friendly societies over centuries and across frontiers provides new insights into their contribution to the gendering of public space and the evolution of 'separate spheres' in Europe.

ISBN: 9780230272576

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Weight: 490g

270 pages