Aristocratic Women in Medieval France

Herausgeber: Evergates, Theodore

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Produktbeschreibung

Were 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 t

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 155mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780812217001
• ISBN-10: 0812217004
• Artikelnr.: 20966599

Autorenporträt

Theodore Evergates is Professor of History at Western Maryland College. Among his books is Feudal Society in Medieval France: Documents from the County of Champagne, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
—Kimberly A. LoPrete Theodore Evergates
1. Adela of Blois: Familial Alliances and Female Lordship
—Kimberly A. LoPrete
2. Aristocratic Women in the Chartrain
—Amy Livingstone
3. Aristocratic Women in the County of Champagne
—Theodore Evergates
4. Countesses as Rulers in Flanders
—Karen S. Nicholas
5. Women, Poets, and Politics in Occitania
—Fredric L. Cheyette
Notes
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index