Noblewomen, aristocracy and power in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm
This is the first study of noblewomen in twelfth-century England and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. It draws on a rich mix of evidence to offer an important reconceptualisation of women's role in aristocratic society, and in doing so suggests new ways of looking at lor...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester Univ. Press
2003.
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| Colección: | Gender in history.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009424530106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- TABLES AND FIGURES
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- PART I Literary sources
- 2 Power and portrayal
- 3 Patronage and power
- PART II Noblewomen and power: the charter evidence
- 4 Countesses
- 5 Witnessing
- 6 Countergifts and affidation
- 7 Seals
- 8 Women of the lesser nobility
- 9 Royal inquests and the power of noblewomen: the Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis de XII Comitatibus of 1185
- 10 CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX 1 Catalogue of seals from the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries
- APPENDIX 2 Noblewomen in the Rotuli de Dominabus
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX.
