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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Tanner, Heather J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: The New Middle Ages
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Power and Agency in Post-Conquest England: Elite Women and the Transformation of the Twelfth Century
• 3. The Most Perfect Knight's Countess: Isabella de Clare, Her Daughters, and Women's Exercise of Power and Influence, 1190-ca. 1250
• 4. Beyond Good Queen Anne: Anne of Bohemia, Patronage, and Politics
• 5. Emma of Ivry, c. 1008-1080
• 6. From Mothers to Daughters: Literary Patronage as Political Work in Ponthieu
• 7. Pirate, Traitor, Wife: Jeanne of Belleville and the Categories of Fourteenth-Century French Noblewomen
• 8. Just Another Day in the Neighborhood: Collective Female Donation Practices at the Hospital of Saint John in Brussels
• 9. A "Necessary Companion": The Salian Consort's Expected Role in Governance
• 10. Power in Pursuit of Religion: The Penitent Sisters of Speyer and their Choice of Affiliation
• 11. Women of Antioch: Political Culture and Powerful Women in the Latin East
• 12. Unexceptional Women: Power, Authority, and Queenship in Early Portugal
• 13. A Lifetime of Power: Beyond Binaries of Gender.