Constance Of France
DOWNLOAD
Download Constance Of France PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Constance Of France book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Constance Of France
DOWNLOAD
Author : Myra Miranda Bom
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Constance Of France written by Myra Miranda Bom and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Constance of France: Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europe is a biography of Constance of France, sister of King Louis VII of France. Myra Bom recovers Constance's life story and puts it in its medieval context by examining the historical evidence of chronicles, charters, seal imprints and letters. The countess's long and interesting life makes for women's history with a large geographical scope, including France, England, Toulouse and the Latin East. It touches on many aspects of life during the Middle Ages such as birth, marriage and divorce, gender roles, experience of time, and expectation for the afterlife. Bom demonstrates how and to what extent medieval women could, and did, take control of their own lives. This book is an account of the interplay of historical context and agency. .
Constance
DOWNLOAD
Author : Tarquin de la Force
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-03-19
Constance written by Tarquin de la Force and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-19 with categories.
An epic historical novel filled with romance, intrigue, and adventure "Constance is a rollicking tale of sex and intrigue set in the time of the French Revolution. It is a love story as well as a historical novel. I could not put it down." Robert Darroch, Cybersydney and The Library of Life "A very detailed and believable historical novel with a rich eighteenth century background." Beth Boyd "A must-read. Constance combines great romance with sumptuous history and adventure." Ann Abrams A historical novel you won't want to put down Contance is an aristocratic young woman in the time of Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution. A bad choice in an early love affair leads to terrible consequences. She finds herself torn between Sir Percy, a dashing English nobleman, and Alfonso, a Spanish count. But a dark secret threatens to tear her world apart as France descends into chaos and revolution. Constance is both a witness and participant in the great events of the age. Will Constance choose Sir Percy or Alfonso? And can she escape the terror of the Revolution? One amazing life. Two great loves. The world in revolution.
Rewriting Saints And Ancestors
DOWNLOAD
Author : Constance Brittain Bouchard
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2014-08-14
Rewriting Saints And Ancestors written by Constance Brittain Bouchard 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 2014-08-14 with History categories.
Thinkers in medieval France constantly reconceptualized what had come before, interpreting past events to give validity to the present and help control the future. The long-dead saints who presided over churches and the ancestors of established dynasties were an especially crucial part of creative memory, Constance Brittain Bouchard contends. In Rewriting Saints and Ancestors she examines how such ex post facto accounts are less an impediment to the writing of accurate history than a crucial tool for understanding the Middle Ages. Working backward through time, Bouchard discusses twelfth-century scribes contemplating the ninth-century documents they copied into cartularies or reworked into narratives of disaster and triumph, ninth-century churchmen deliberately forging supposedly late antique documents as weapons against both kings and other churchmen, and sixth- and seventh-century Gallic writers coming to terms with an early Christianity that had neither the saints nor the monasteries that would become fundamental to religious practice. As they met with political change and social upheaval, each generation decided which events of the past were worth remembering and which were to be reinterpreted or quietly forgotten. By considering memory as an analytic tool, Bouchard not only reveals the ways early medieval writers constructed a useful past but also provides new insights into the nature of record keeping, the changing ways dynasties were conceptualized, the relationships of the Merovingian and Carolingian kings to the church, and the discovery (or invention) of Gaul's earliest martyrs.
Those Of My Blood
DOWNLOAD
Author : Constance Bouchard
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2001-02-20
Those Of My Blood written by Constance Bouchard 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 2001-02-20 with History categories.
For those who ruled medieval society, the family was the crucial social unit, made up of those from whom property and authority were inherited and those to whom it passed. One's kin could be one's closest political and military allies or one's fiercest enemies. While the general term used to describe family members was consanguinei mei, "those of my blood," not all of those relations-parents, siblings, children, distant cousins, maternal relatives, paternal ancestors, and so on-counted as true family in any given time, place, or circumstance. In the early and high Middle Ages, the "family" was a very different group than it is in modern society, and the ways in which medieval men and women conceptualized and structured the family unit changed markedly over time. Focusing on the Frankish realm between the eighth and twelfth centuries, Constance Brittain Bouchard outlines the operative definitions of "family" in this period when there existed various and flexible ways by which individuals were or were not incorporated into the family group. Even in medieval patriarchal society, women of the aristocracy, who were considered outsiders by their husbands and their husbands' siblings and elders, were never completely marginalized and paradoxically represented the very essence of "family" to their male children. Bouchard also engages in the ongoing scholarly debate about the nobility around the year 1000, arguing that there was no clear point of transition from amorphous family units to agnatically structured kindred. Instead, she points out that great noble families always privileged the male line of descent, even if most did not establish father-son inheritance until the eleventh or twelfth century. Those of My Blood clarifies the complex meanings of medieval family structure and family consciousness and shows the many ways in which negotiations of power within the noble family can help explain early medieval politics.
Strong Of Body Brave And Noble
DOWNLOAD
Author : Constance Brittain Bouchard
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1998
Strong Of Body Brave And Noble written by Constance Brittain Bouchard and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Chivalry categories.
Medieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knightly deeds, and the modern imagination has also been captured by these leaders and warriors. This book explores the nature of the nobility, focusing on France in the High Middle Ages (11th-13th centuries). Constance Brittain Bouchard examines their families; their relationships with peasants, townspeople, and clerics; and the images of them fashioned in medieval literary texts. She incorporates throughout a consideration of noble women and the nobility's attitude toward women. Research in the last two generations has modified and expanded modern understanding of who knights and nobles were; how they used authority, war, and law; and what position they held within the broader society. Even the concepts of feudalism, courtly love, and chivalry, once thought to be self-evident aspects of medieval society, have been seriously questioned. Bouchard presents bold new interpretations of medieval literature as both reflecting and criticizing the role of the nobility and their behavior. She offers the first synthesis of this scholarship in accessible form, inviting general readers as well as students and professional scholars to a new understanding of aristocratic role and function.
The Constance Saga
DOWNLOAD
Author : Alfred Bradly Gough
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1902
The Constance Saga written by Alfred Bradly Gough and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1902 with Comparative literature categories.
The History Of The Council Of Constance
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jacques Lenfant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1730
The History Of The Council Of Constance written by Jacques Lenfant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1730 with Council of Constance categories.
Constance Pascal 1877 1937
DOWNLOAD
Author : Felicia Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Igrs, University of London
Release Date : 2013
Constance Pascal 1877 1937 written by Felicia Gordon and has been published by Igrs, University of London this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
Constance Pascal's career in French psychiatry from 1908 to 1937 exemplifies the opportunities open to women in the French Third Republic as well as the prejudices they encountered. As the first woman psychiatrist in France, Pascal, of Romanian origin, attained professional success at the cost of suppressing her personal life. Best known for her work on dementia praecox, she founded one of the first schools in France for children with severe learning difficulties, and made remarkable contributions in the reform of asylum practices and, influenced by Freudian psychoanalysis, in psychotherapeutic intervention. Her feminism is demonstrated by her distinguished, often contentious, career in a hitherto all male profession and by her support for other women in their professional roles. Her unjustly neglected life story illuminates many of the conflicts experienced by women entering the professions during the belle epoque and the inter-war years. The study's scholarly authority and ambitious theoretical range do not detract from its lively sense of the person and life struggles of the subject making this a fine demonstration of life history research enthralling for the general reader and expert alike. Felicia Gordon is a Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and the author of several works on French women's history, among them on Madeleine Pelletier.
Charters Duchess Constance Br
DOWNLOAD
Author : Judith Everard
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 1999
Charters Duchess Constance Br written by Judith Everard and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Ducal charters illuminate politics, external relations, and the conduct of government, and also Breton society and institutions. The indispensable charter collection for the Breton lands in the complex period of the break-up of the Angevin hegemony. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW Around 1200, sovereignty over the duchy of Brittany was disputed by the Angevin kings of England and the Capetian kings of France. With few local chronicle sources concerning Brittany in this important period, ducal charters provide crucial evidence for politics, external relations, and the conduct of government. They are also an essential source for Breton society and institutions in a period of rapid change and development. Collected here for the first time are the acts of Duchess Constance (1171-1201), her mother, dowager-duchess Margaret of Scotland, Constance's three husbands, Geoffrey, son of King Henry II, Ranulf III, earl of Chester, and Guy de Thouars, and her three children, Eleanor, Arthur of Brittany, and Alice, who succeeded in 1213 toa duchy under Capetian sovereignty. The subject matter concerns not only Brittany, but also the Breton rulers' extensive lands in England, the honour of Richmond, and even the counties of Anjou, Maine and Touraine while they wereunder Arthur's rule. The charters are also of wider general significance for the light they cast on the exercise of political power by female rulers. MICHAEL JONES is Emeritus Professor of Medieval French History at theUniversity of Nottingham.
Constance Sherwood
DOWNLOAD
Author : Georgiana Fullerton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
Constance Sherwood written by Georgiana Fullerton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with English fiction categories.