Below is a list of new,
expanded, or significantly revised sections in each chapter. However, this is
by no means an exhaustive list. Many other sections have also been updated,
streamlined, and revised to aid student comprehension.
Chapter 1:
- Women and the Family
in Ancient Egypt
- Women and Occupations
in Ancient Egypt
- Royal Persian Women
Chapter 2:
- Cretan Society and the
Role of Women
- Section on Sappho expanded
Chapter 3:
- Section on Sophocles
expanded to include "Antigone"
- New box, "The Training
of a Wife," by an Athenian writer
Chapter 4:
- Women in the Early Republic,
in Roman Society section
- Caesar's Invasion of
Italy expanded, includes Cleopatra, in Supremacy Of Caesar section
- Legislation, Women, and
the Family in Augustus's reign
Chapter 5:
- Women and the Family
in the Roman Empire
- Female Martyrs in Christianity,
in Origins Of Christianity section
- Women in the Church,
in Battles Within Christianity section
Chapter 6:
- Peasant Life in the Medieval
Age
- Trade and Manufacture
- Nunneries in the Early
Days of Monasticism
- Missionaries and Popular
Religion
- Benedictines as Missionaries
- Section on the spread
of Roman variety of Christianity in England, including conversions of Frisians
and miracle stories as sources of popular culture
- New box, "Sidonius Apollinaris
on Living with Germans"
- New box, "Rule of St.
Benedict on Clothing of Monks"
Chapter 7:
- The Bureaucracy in Byzantine
Civilization
- Missionary Activities
of the Churches
- Women in Byzantine Civilization
- Popular Culture, Byzantium
- Technology in the Arabic
World
- Women in the Early Days
of Islam: Roles in Conversion, Family, Position
- Centers of Culture: Baghdad
and Spain
- Carolingian Society and
Culture: Aristocratic Culture, Economy and Society, Art and Architecture
- Expanded section on The
Vikings, including Viking Ships and Exploration, Viking Society, Women, Poetry
and Sagas
- New box, "Writing Medieval
Women's History"
Chapter 8:
- Feudalism and Manorialism
now covered in the same chapter
- Crusades introduced in
this chapter
- Manorialism and the Peasantry
section, includes expanded coverage of peasant life to include housing, diet,
sex roles, popular culture and religion
- Free and Unfree Peasants
- Noble women
- Urban Life section, includes
coverage of housing, sustenance, entertainment
- The Ottonian Renaissance,
discussion of scholars: Roswitha, a noble woman, and Gilbert, a French monk
- Interest in Explorations
as a byproduct of the Crusades
- New box, "The Debate
Over Feudalism"
- New box, "A Twelfth-Century
Description of London"
- New box, "Gregory VII's
Letter to the German Nobility after Canossa"
Chapter 9:
- New Section, Spiritual
Approaches to Knowledge, including Worship of Mary, the Cistercians and St.
Bernard, and Women in Spiritual
Life
Chapter 10:
- Urban Regulation, Moral
Regulation, in Urban Government section
- New Lay Religious Observance
section, on Beguines and Beghars, Parish Guilds, Anti-Semitism, Individual
Spiritualism and Pious Women
- New box, "The Craft of
Weavers of Silk Kerchiefs at Paris," guild regulations for a women's guild
- New box, "The Beguinage
of St. Elizabeth in Ghent"
Chapter 11:
- Expanded section on Agriculture
to include impact on the peasantry, serfdom, gentry
- Section on Engineering,
on clocks
- Section on The Standard
of Living including female survival during plague; lay Medieval misogyny,
including witch hunts; medicine in the Late Middle Ages; housing and diet;
courtesy and dress; refinements in living; art for the lay consumer
- The Pastons, liveried
retainers of the great nobles
- Where Historians Disagree
Box, "The Status of Women in the Middle Ages"
Chapter 14:
- Daily Life in
the Early 1500s
- The Columbian Exchange
added to section on Expansion Overseas
Chapter 16:
- Expanded section on the
Status of Women in the 17th c.
- Expanded section on Religious
Discipline
Chapter 17:
- Where Historians Disagree
Box: "Two Views of Louis XIV"
Chapter 18:
- The British Foothold
in India in the 18th century
Chapter 20:
- Women in the French Revolution
- Section on Popular Politics
expanded to include the society of revolutionary republican women
- Where Historians Disagree
Box: "On the Origins of the French Revolution"
Chapter 22:
- Where Historians Disagree
Box: "The Industrial Revolution and the Standard of Living"
Chapter 28:
- Reorganized chapter structure
— brings 20th century culture to the foreground
- Expanded material on
20th century fiction includes discussion of A Room of One’s
Own
- New material on the initial
Nazi attacks on Jews and their policies on racial purity in Consolidating
Nazi Rule section
- New material on the role
of women in Nazi society in section on Winning Approval
Chapter 29:
- Greatly re-worked, some
sections re-ordered for a more logical organization
- New coverage on women
in the British and American "Home Front"
- Expanded coverage of
the Holocaust
- New coverage on the Resistance
in WWII
- Expanded coverage of
anti-colonial and nationalist movements
- Where Historians Disagree
Box: "On German Genocide"
Chapter 30:
- Greatly re-worked, some
sections re-ordered for a more logical organization, many sections streamlined
and condensed
- Expanded section on Decolonialization
in Africa
- European Union and the
Maastricht Treaty
- Expanded coverage of
the European Union and European Community
- Expanded coverage of
the education system
- New and expanded coverage
in the Changes Affecting Women in the Late 20th Century section
- New material on foreign
workers in Europe
- New material on Simone
de Beauvoir
- New information on the
impact of international youth culture in discussion of "The Final Round
in Eastern Europe"
- Expanded and updated
coverage on Yugoslavia
- Section on The Explosion
of Popular Culture and the American influence on international youth culture
- Section on Cultural Studies
- Increased coverage in
a new section on Gender Studies
- New box, "A Reflection
on Contemporary Feminism"
Epilogue:
- Greatly revised and expanded
- Section on Culture includes
new discussions of the family and social responsibility
- New section on Cohesion
and Conflict includes discussions of religion and identity
- New section on Splintered
Cultures includes discussion of "Whose Culture?" and popular and
high culture
