Premodern History and Art through the Prism of Gender in East-Central Europe

This volume explores pre-modern history and art history from a gender perspective, with a focus on the Czech milieu. It is divided into four parts, including visual sources, literary representation, and case studies. It is a representative collection of current Czech research, innovative in its approach to a broader audience and global academia.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 15 December 2021
Publisher: Lexington Books

The collection of texts gathered in this volume shares a common denominator, namely the (Art) History of the pre-modern period and a gender perspective. While not all contributions explicitly address local issues, the Czech milieu does play a certain role, albeit to varying degrees. The book is structured into four parts, each based on specific areas of interest, time frames, and research perspectives.

The first part delves into the state of research in women's history and the implementation of the concept of gender. It highlights a certain paradigmatic conservatism in Czech (Art) historiography. The second section showcases contributions that analyze visual sources of Czech origin. The third part reserves space for texts that examine gender issues in literary representation. In the final part, two case studies derived from an analysis of the pre-modern West European source base are presented.

It is important to note that this volume cannot be considered exhaustive in any sense. Rather, it serves as a representative collection showcasing current Czech research in pre-modern History and Art history that employs gender as a tool of analysis. What sets this collection apart is its innovative approach to introducing this specific segment of Central European (Art) history to a broader audience, including both the local community and the global academic community.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666905236