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Adela Of Blois

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Author : Kimberly A. LoPrete
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Adela Of Blois written by Kimberly A. LoPrete and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.

Based on a comprehensive re-evaluation of sources, this is the first scholarly volume devoted to the life and political career of Adela, the youngest daughter of William the Conqueror, who ruled as Countess of Blois, Chartres and Meaux for 20 years.

A Female Ruler In Feudal Society

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Author : Kimberly A LoPrete
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992

A Female Ruler In Feudal Society written by Kimberly A LoPrete and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Champagne (France) categories.

Adela Or The Betrothed

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Author : ADELA.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1867

Adela Or The Betrothed written by ADELA. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1867 with categories.

Adela Or The Betrothed A Poem

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Author : Adela (fict.name.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1867

Adela Or The Betrothed A Poem written by Adela (fict.name.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1867 with categories.

Nobility Of Blois Chartres

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Author : Amy Livingstone Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992

Nobility Of Blois Chartres written by Amy Livingstone Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with France categories.

Heroines Of The Crusades

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Author : Celestia Angenette Bloss
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28

Heroines Of The Crusades written by Celestia Angenette Bloss and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Fiction categories.

To those whom it has been my privilege and pleasure to lead through the devious and darkened paths of the Past, to all who cordially receive the doctrine that actions and not faint desires for Excellence form the character, I address a few words by way of explanation and Preface. Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine, whether glorious in the beauty of her first temple, and the excellent wisdom of her philosopher king, or veiled in the darkness of that fatal eclipse in which the solemn scenes of Calvary consummated her glory and shame, has occupied a position in the great drama of human events, more interesting and important than any other city on the globe. But Jerusalem, in the gloom of that moral night which gathered over the nations after the fall of the Western Empire of the Romans, exerted a greater influence upon the minds of men than at any former period. The insulting Moslem felt a degree of veneration for the splendid ruins over which he walked with all a conqueror’s pride—the African anchorite left his solitary hermitage to weep upon Mount Olivet—the European adventurer wreathed his staff with the branching palm from her holy hills—the despairing Jew sat in sackcloth at her fallen gates, and even the mingled barbarians of the East united with the Christian to revere the spot where art achieved its proudest monument, and poetry found the theme of its sublimest song. This natural reverence, exalted into piety by the decrees of the church, resulted necessarily in the practice of pilgrimage. Anxious, restless guilt, fled from the scene of its enormities to the sweet valleys where the Saviour whispered peace to his disciples; poetry sought inspiring visions on the Mount of Transfiguration; penitence lingered in the garden of Passion, and remorse expiated its crimes in weary vigils at the Holy Sepulchre. At the dawn of the eleventh century, one sublime idea pervaded Christendom. The thousand years of the Apocalypse were supposed to be accomplished, and a general belief prevailed that on the Mount of Olives, whence the Son of God ascended in his chariot of cloud to heaven, he would reappear in all the pomp of his Second Advent. From every quarter of the Latin world the affrighted Christians, deserting their homes and kindred, crowded to the Holy Land—terror quickened devotion, curiosity stimulated enthusiasm. But insult and outrage awaited the pilgrims in Palestine, and in Jerusalem itself they encountered the scoffing taunts of idolatry and infidelity. To free those holy courts from the polluting tread of the sandalled Paynim, to prepare a pure resting-place for the Son of Man, Superstition roused the martial spirit of the age, and enlisted chivalry under the banners of the cross. Thus began the Crusades, those romantic expeditions which, combining religious fervor with military ardor, united the various nations of Europe from the shores of the Baltic to the Straits of Gibraltar, and from the banks of the Danube to the Bay of Biscay, in one common cause, and poured the mingled tide of fanatics, warriors and adventurers, upon the plains of Asia. For nearly two centuries the mightiest efforts and best blood of Christendom were wasted in the useless struggle, and it is computed that not less than six millions of people devoted their lives and fortunes to this desperate undertaking.

Rezension Zu Kimberly A Loprete Adela Of Blois Countess And Lord C 1067 1137 County Dublin Four Courts Press 2007 Xxvi 663 S Isbn 978 1 85182 563 9 Eur 85 00

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Author : Joachim Ehlers
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

Rezension Zu Kimberly A Loprete Adela Of Blois Countess And Lord C 1067 1137 County Dublin Four Courts Press 2007 Xxvi 663 S Isbn 978 1 85182 563 9 Eur 85 00 written by Joachim Ehlers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.

Women And Gender In Medieval Europe

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Author : Margaret Schaus
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2006

Women And Gender In Medieval Europe written by Margaret Schaus and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.

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Aristocratic Women In Medieval France

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Author : Theodore Evergates
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2010-08-03

Aristocratic Women In Medieval France written by Theodore Evergates and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-03 with History categories.

Were aristocratic women in medieval France little more than appendages to patrilineal families, valued as objects of exchange and necessary only for the production of male heirs? Such was the view proposed by the great French historian Georges Duby more than three decades ago and still widely accepted. In Aristocratic Women in Medieval France another model is put forth: women of the landholding elite—from countesses down to the wives of ordinary knights—had considerable rights, and exercised surprising power. The authors of the volume offer five case studies of women from the mid-eleventh through the thirteenth centuries, and from regions as diverse as Blois-Chartres, Champagne, Flanders, and Occitania. They show not only the diversity of life experiences these women enjoyed but the range of social and political roles open to them. The ecclesiastical and secular sources they mine confirm that women were regarded as full members of both their natal and affinal families, were never excluded from inheriting and controlling property, and did not have their share of family property limited to dowries. Women across France exchanged oaths for fiefs and assumed responsibilities for enfeoffed knights. As feudal lords, they settled disputes involving vassals, fortified castles, and even led troops into battle. Aristocratic Women in Medieval France clearly shows that it is no longer possible to depict well-born women as powerless in medieval society. Demonstrating the importance of aristocratic women in a period during which they have been too long assumed to have lacked influence, it forces us to reframe our understanding of the high Middle Ages.

Her World Against A Lie

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Author : Florence Marryat
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879

Her World Against A Lie written by Florence Marryat and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with categories.