Ideas and expressions of gender that characterised the centuries from 300 to 900 in milieux ranging from York to Baghdad, via Rome and Constantinople, are discu... » 

Ideas and expressions of gender that characterised the centuries from 300 to 900 in milieux ranging from York to Baghdad, via Rome and Constantinople, are discussed in this series of essays, which use gender analysis to open perspectives on issues related to power and cultural strategies in pre-industrial societies. «