Ebook: Classic Problems of Probability

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 spaceFeatures a wide geographical and methodological rangeIncludes numerous illustrations to enhance clarity. Read more... Gender and the City before Modernity; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Queen and the City: Royal Female Intervention and Patronage in Hellenistic Civic Communities; 2 'A Remarkably Patterned Life': Domestic and Public in the Aztec Household City; 3 Women, Property and Urban Space in Tenth-Century Milan; 4 Towards a Female Topography of the Ancient Greek City: Case Studies from Late Archaic and Early Classical Athens (c.520-400 BCE); 5 Bodymaps: Sexing Space and Zoning Gender in Ancient Athens