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024 7 _a10.9783/9780812200614
_2doi
035 _a(DE-B1597)9780812200614
035 _a(DE-B1597)448913
035 _a(OCoLC)979590992
040 _aDE-B1597
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082 0 4 _a305.48/9621
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
245 0 0 _aAristocratic Women in Medieval France /
_ced. by Theodore Evergates.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2010]
264 4 _c©2000
300 _a1 online resource (288 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
_bPDF
_2rda
490 0 _aThe Middle Ages Series
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tMaps and Genealogical Tables --
_tPreface --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Adela of Blois: Familial Alliances and Female Lordship --
_t2. Aristocratic Women in the Chartrain --
_t3. Aristocratic Women in the County of Champagne --
_t4. Countesses as Rulers in Flanders --
_t5. Women, Poets, and Politics in Occitania --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tContributors --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
_2star
520 _aWere aristocratic women in medieval France little more than appendages to patrilineal families, valued as objects of exchange and necessary only for the production of male heirs? Such was the view proposed by the great French historian Georges Duby more than three decades ago and still widely accepted. In Aristocratic Women in Medieval France another model is put forth: women of the landholding elite-from countesses down to the wives of ordinary knights-had considerable rights, and exercised surprising power.The authors of the volume offer five case studies of women from the mid-eleventh through the thirteenth centuries, and from regions as diverse as Blois-Chartres, Champagne, Flanders, and Occitania. They show not only the diversity of life experiences these women enjoyed but the range of social and political roles open to them. The ecclesiastical and secular sources they mine confirm that women were regarded as full members of both their natal and affinal families, were never excluded from inheriting and controlling property, and did not have their share of family property limited to dowries. Women across France exchanged oaths for fiefs and assumed responsibilities for enfeoffed knights. As feudal lords, they settled disputes involving vassals, fortified castles, and even led troops into battle.Aristocratic Women in Medieval France clearly shows that it is no longer possible to depict well-born women as powerless in medieval society. Demonstrating the importance of aristocratic women in a period during which they have been too long assumed to have lacked influence, it forces us to reframe our understanding of the high Middle Ages.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
650 0 _aUpper class women
_zFrance
_xHistory.
650 0 _aUpper class women
_zFrance
_xSocial conditions.
650 0 _aWomen
_xHistory
_yMiddle Ages, 500-1500.
650 4 _aGender Studies.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Medieval.
_2bisacsh
653 _aEuropean History.
653 _aGender Studies.
653 _aHistory.
653 _aMedieval and Renaissance Studies.
653 _aWomen's Studies.
653 _aWorld History.
700 1 _aCheyette, Fredric L.
_eautore
700 1 _aEvergantes, Theodore
_eautore
700 1 _aEvergates, Theodore
_eautore
_ecuratore
700 1 _aLivingstone, Amy
_eautore
700 1 _aLoPrete, Kimberly A.
_eautore
700 1 _aNicholas, Karen S.
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812200614
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812200614
856 4 2 _3Cover
_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812200614/original
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999 _c197950
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