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2009-2010 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2009-2010 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

WMS 316 - Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

3 credits C
An exploration of how pre-modern European societies understood, represented, and enforced gender differences. A wide variety of source material including saints’ lives, marriage contracts, sermons, law codes, guides for witch hunters, aristocratic portraits, and medical treatises and mystical poetry will be used to explore the changing answers to two basic questions: What makes a person a woman or a man? And how does this gender identity affect their lives in the world? The course content will move from the waning days of the Roman Empire through the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Reform. Cross-listed as HST 316.