Traditional scholarship argues that the changes fostered by the growth of royal power and feudalism in Western Europe directly impacted women’s public power and authority in the later twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Focusing on the inheriting countesses of Boulogne (1160–1260) and their neighbours in northern France, this monograph investigates the influence of the rise of centralized government on elite women’s power. This chronological and comparative analysis highlights successive countesses’ governance of inherited lands, the roles they played in their spouses’ lands and in political affairs outside their inherited lands, along with crucial assessments of the social identity and status of the family. It challenges the established interpretation and shows that the establishment of feudalism and the elaboration of bureaucracy did not curtail elite women’s access to or exercise of lordship to any significant degree.
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Bibliographische Angaben
Auflage
1/2023
Copyrightjahr
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-80270-010-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-80270-092-3
Verlag
Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Reihe
Gender and Power in the Premodern World
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
168
Produkttyp
Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
Contents Kein Zugriff
List of Illustrations Kein Zugriff
Abbreviations Kein Zugriff
Acknowledgements Kein Zugriff
Introduction Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 8
1. Mothers and Daughters Kein Zugriff Seiten 9 - 20
2. The Law, the Fief, and the Heiress Kein Zugriff Seiten 21 - 30
3. By Order of the Countess Kein Zugriff Seiten 31 - 52
4. The Countesses’ Dynastic, Religious, and Spousal Powers Kein Zugriff Seiten 53 - 62
5. Power and Persuasion Kein Zugriff Seiten 63 - 82
6. Patronage and Commemoration Kein Zugriff Seiten 83 - 112
Conclusion Kein Zugriff Seiten 113 - 115
Appendices Kein Zugriff Seiten 116 - 130
Bibliography Kein Zugriff Seiten 131 - 148
Index Kein Zugriff Seiten 149 - 156
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