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

• Tác giả: Jitske Jasperse
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 1641891467
• ISBN-13: 978-1641891455
• ISBN-13: 978-1641891462
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 943.21024092 Central Europe Germany
• Thông tin xuất bản: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (x, 134 pages) : , illustrations, maps.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 197482
• Chủ đề: 1. Material culture--History--To 1500--Europe; 2. Personal belongings--History--To 1500--Europe; 3. Power (Social sciences)--History--To 1500--Europe; 4. Sex role--History--To 1500--Europe; 5. Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500--Europe; 6. Women--Social conditions--Europe

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

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 official documentary record. It is especially through the visual record of material culture that we can hear female voices, allowing us to forge an alternative way toward rethinking assumptions about power for sparsely-documented elite women.