Gender and the City before Modernity

Gender and the City before Modernity presents a series of multi-disciplinary readings that explore issues relating to the role of gender in a variety of cities of the ancient, medieval, and early modern worlds. Presents an inter-disciplinary collection of readings that reveal new insights into the intersection of gender, temporality, and urban space Features a wide geographical and methodological range Includes numerous illustrations to enhance clarity

Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 LIN FOXHALL and GABRIELE NEHER 1 The Queen and the City: Royal Female Intervention and Patronage in Hellenistic Civic Communities 20 GILLIAN RAMSEY 2 'A Remarkably Patterned Life': Domestic and Public in the Aztec Household City 38 CAROLINE DODDS PENNOCK 3 Women, Property and Urban Space in Tenth-Century Milan 57 ROSS BALZARETTI 4 Towards a Female Topography of the Ancient Greek City: Case Studies from Late Archaic and Early Classical Athens (c.520–400 BCE) 86 LISA C. NEVETT 5 Bodymaps: Sexing Space and Zoning Gender in Ancient Athens 107 JAMES DAVIDSON 6 Ladies who Lounge: Class, Religion and Social Interaction in Seventeenth-Century Isfahan 125 EMMA LOOSLEY 7 The Nanjing Courtesan Ma Shouzhen (1548–1604): Gender, Space and Painting in the Late Ming Pleasure Quarter 140 MONICA MERLIN 8 Squabbling Siblings: Gender and Monastic Life in Late Anglo-Saxon Winchester 163 HELEN FOXHALL FORBES 9 A Father, a Daughter and a Procurator: Authority and Resistance in the Prison Memoir of Perpetua of Carthage 195 KATE COOPER 10 Women's Social Networks and Female Friendship in the Ancient Greek City 213 CLAIRE TAYLOR 11 Seeing is Believing: Urban Gossip and the Balcony in Early Modern Venice 231 ALEXANDER COWAN Index 249