Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power : Matilda Plantagenet and her Sisters

Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power Matilda Plantagenet and her Sisters

This book argues that the impressive range of belongings that can be connected to Duchess Matilda Plantagenet-textiles, illuminated manuscripts, coins, chronicles, charters, and literary texts-allows us to perceive elite women's performance of power, even when they are largely absent from the o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Jasperse, Jitske, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Arc Humanities Press 2020
2020
Colección:Gender and power in the premodern world.
Materias:
Matilda, > Duchess, consort of Henry, Duke of Saxony, > 1156-1189.
Power (Social sciences) > Europe > History > To 1500.
Sex role > Europe > History > To 1500.
Women > Europe > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Personal belongings > Europe > History > To 1500.
Material culture > Europe > History > To 1500.
Women > Europe > Social conditions.
Matilda of England.
Plantagenet.
art.
material culture.
medieval Germany.
power.
textile history.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422349906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : material culture and performance of power
  • Staging the bride and her treasure
  • Small items making big impressions : coins and seals
  • Devotion and dynasty on parchment
  • Trappings vested with power
  • Epilogue : materializing power and its afterlife.

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