Archiv für März 2016

Rebecca  Probert (ed.), Cohabitation and Non-marital Births in England and Wales, 1600–2012 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 253. ISBN 978-1-137-39625-9 (hb).

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12200

Kenneth  Loiselle, Brotherly Love: Freemasonry and Male Friendship in Enlightenment France (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014), pp. xiii + 261. ISBN 978-0-801-45243-7 (hb).

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12195

Fiona J.  Griffiths and Julie  Hotchin (eds), Partners in Spirit: Women, Men, and Religious Life in Germany, 1100–1500 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), pp. x + 427. ISBN 978–2-503-54096-2 (hb).

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12196

Jad  Adams, Women & the Vote: A World History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 516. ISBN 978-0-198-70684-7 (hb).

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12185

Tracy  Adams, Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014), pp. 220. ISBN 978-0-271-05071-3.

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12186

ABSTRACTS

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12174

‘The Gospel of Health’: American Missionaries and the Transformation of Ottoman/Turkish Women’s Bodies, 1890–1932

This article explores an overlooked aspect of American missionary modernisation efforts in the late Ottoman Empire: the attempted transformation of women’s bodies. By the late nineteenth century, American missionary women and Ottoman government officia…

Sara  Read, Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. xii + 248. ISBN 978-1-137-35502-7 (hb).

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12201

Issue Information

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12171

Achilles or Adonis: Controversies Surrounding the Male Body as National Symbol in Georgian England

This paper analyses the controversy that arose when a monumental bronze nude statue of Achilles was unveiled at Hyde Park Corner (London) in 1822 as a monument to the Duke of Wellington and his army. The neoclassical statue (made by Richard Westmacott)…