TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tanner,Heather J.
TI  - Lordship and Governance by the Inheriting Countesses of Boulogne, 1160–1260
T2  - Gender and Power in the Premodern World
SN  - 9781802700923
U1  - 305.420944 23//eng/20230724eng
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Leeds : 
PB  - ARC Humanities Press, 
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - France
KW  - Boulogne-sur-Mer
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Women
KW  - Political activity
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Flanders
KW  - Northern France
KW  - dynastic power
KW  - heiresses
KW  - medieval women
KW  - patronage
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Abbreviations --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Mothers and Daughters --; Chapter 2. The Law, the Fief, and the Heiress --; Chapter 3. By Order of the Countess --; Chapter 4. The Countesses’ Dynastic, Religious, and Spousal Powers --; Chapter 5. Power and Persuasion --; Chapter 6. Patronage and Commemoration --; Conclusion --; Appendices --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781802700923?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781802700923
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781802700923/original
ER  -