Women And Power In The Middle Ages
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Women And Power In The Middle Ages
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Author : Mary Erler
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 1988
Women And Power In The Middle Ages written by Mary Erler and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
Power in medieval society has traditionally been ascribed to figures of public authority--violent knights and conflicting sovereigns who altered the surface of civic life through the exercise of law and force. The wives and consorts of these powerful men have generally been viewed as decorative attendants, while common women were presumed to have had no power or consequence. Reassessing the conventional definition of power that has shaped such portrayals, Women and Power in the Middle Ages reveals the varied manifestations of female power in the medieval household and community--from the cultural power wielded by the wives of Venetian patriarchs to the economic power of English peasant women and the religious power of female saints. Among the specific topics addresses are Griselda's manipulation of silence as power in Chaucer's "The Clerk's Tale"; the extensive networks of influence devised by Lady Honor Lisle; and the role of medieval women book owners as arbiters of lay piety and ambassadors of culture. In every case, the essays seek to transcend simple polarities of public and private, male and female, in order to provide a more realistic analysis of the workings of power in feudal society.
Medieval Women
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Author : Eileen Power
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997
Medieval Women written by Eileen Power and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
An accessible and clear snapshot of the life and work of women in medieval times from the nunnery to the town to the castle.
Women And Power In The Middle Ages
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Author : Ana Rodríguez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-07-31
Women And Power In The Middle Ages written by Ana Rodríguez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-31 with categories.
Female Power In The Middle Ages
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Author : Karen Glente
language : da
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Female Power In The Middle Ages written by Karen Glente and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Middle Ages categories.
Power Of The Weak
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Author : Jennifer Carpenter
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1995
Power Of The Weak written by Jennifer Carpenter and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Covering the eleventh through sixteenth centuries, these essays suggest that influence and power may have paradoxically been available to women despite, and sometimes precisely because of, their subordinate position in society. Striking for its range of scholarship, this collection explores the power and independence, relationships and influence of medieval queens, holy women, mothers, widows, Jewish conversas, and others. Latin and Anglo-Norman hagiography, confessors' manuals, coronation rituals, responsa literature, and legal theory are represented. "An intriguing exploration of a basic paradox of medieval society, and an excellent blend of theory and gender studies with detailed work relevant for social and political history." -- Joel Rosenthal, author of Patriarchy and Families of Privilege in Fifteenth-Century England JENNIFER CARPENTER is a lecturer in history at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Gendering The Master Narrative
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Author : Mary C. Erler
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-06
Gendering The Master Narrative written by Mary C. Erler 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 2018-08-06 with History categories.
Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one, and how such a tradition might have been transmitted. It describes women's progress toward power as a push-pull movement, showing how practices and institutions that ostensibly enabled women in the Middle Ages could sometimes erode their authority as well.This book provides a much-needed theoretical and historical reassessment of medieval women's power. It updates the conclusions from the editors' essential volume on that topic, Women and Power in the Middle Ages, which was published in 1988 and altered the prevailing view of female subservience by correcting the nearly ubiquitous equation of "power" with "public authority." Most scholars now accept a broader definition of power based on the interactions between men and women.In their Introduction, Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski survey the directions in which the study of medieval women's agency has developed in the past fifteen years. Like its predecessor, this volume is richly interdisciplinary. It contains essays by highly regarded scholars of history, literature, and art history, and features seventeen black-and-white illustrations and two maps.
Medieval Elite Women And The Exercise Of Power 1100 1400
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Author : Heather J. Tanner
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-01-09
Medieval Elite Women And The Exercise Of Power 1100 1400 written by Heather J. Tanner and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-09 with History categories.
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 elite women in positions of authority were expected, accepted, and routine, these essays traverse the cities and kingdoms of France, England, Germany, Portugal, and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in order to illuminate women’s roles in medieval power structures. Without losing sight of the predominance of patriarchy and misogyny, contributors lay the groundwork for the acceptance of female public authority as normal in medieval society, fostering a new framework for understanding medieval elite women and power.
Women And Girls In The Middle Ages
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Author : Kay Eastwood
language : en
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Release Date : 2004
Women And Girls In The Middle Ages written by Kay Eastwood and has been published by Crabtree Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Women and Girls in the Middle Ages shows the roles and duties of women and girls of the nobility and peasantry, and the choices they had. Special emphasis on medieval dress and beauty, women of power, and women of other lands during the same period in history.
Relations Of Power
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Author : Emma O. Bérat
language : en
Publisher: V&R Unipress
Release Date : 2021-01-18
Relations Of Power written by Emma O. Bérat and has been published by V&R Unipress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-18 with History categories.
Women's networks – their relations with other women, men, objects and place – were a source of power in various European and neighbouring regions throughout the Middle Ages. This interdisciplinary volume considers how women's networks, and particularly women's direct and indirect relationships to other women, constituted and shaped power from roughly 300 to 1700 AD. The essays in this collection juxtapose scholarship from the fields of archaeology, art history, literature, history and religious studies, drawing on a wide variety of source types. Their aim is to highlight not only the importance of networks in understanding medieval women's power but also the different ways these networks are represented in medieval sources and can be approached today. This volume reveals how women's networks were widespread and instrumental in shaping political, familial and spiritual legacies.
Women Power And Religious Patronage In The Middle Ages
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Author : E. Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2014-01-14
Women Power And Religious Patronage In The Middle Ages written by E. Jordan and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-14 with History categories.
By examining a significant corpus of secular and monastic charters, this study provides a more complex understanding of the role of religious patronage in medieval society, specifically offering a glimpse of the experience of female rulers in a period when actions were often constrained and obscured by gender bias.