Medieval Elite Women and the Exercise of Power, 1100-1400 Moving beyond the Exceptionalist Debate /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tanner, Heather J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Europe-History-476-1492.; Europe-History-1492-.; Women.; Literature, Medieval.; History of Medieval Europe.; History of Early Modern Europe.; Women's Studies.; Medieval Literature.

For decades, medieval scholarship has been dominated by the paradigm that women who wielded power after c. 1100 were exceptions to the "rule" of female exclusion from governance and the public sphere. This collection makes a powerful case for a new paradigm. Building on the premise that el...