AHI 420 GENDER IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

Exploration of issues of gender in early modern European art, literature, and society from the late middle ages to the 17th century. Topics include courtly love vs. church culture, the humanist family and the gendered burgher republic, homoeroticism, mythological and historical rape, gendered landscape, Neoplatonism, courtesans and prostitution, gender in the Reformation, witches and other "powerful women", mercantilism and gender, the rise of pornography, the gender of art, music, and cultural leisure, Counter-Reformation Catholicism, and the gendering of the absolutist state. Extensive readings in primary sources.