Susan M. Johns

Noblewomen, aristocracy and power in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers an important reconceptualisation of women's role in aristocratic society and suggests new ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high middle ages

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780719063053
• ISBN-10: 0719063051
• Artikelnr.: 21918581

Autorenporträt

Susan M. Johns was Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Huddersfield 1994-97 and now teaches at the University of Sheffield

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Abbreviations Introduction Literary sources 1. Power and portrayal
2. Patronage and power Noblewomen and power: the charter evidence 3.
Countesses 4. Witnessing 5. Countergifts and affidation 6. Seals 7. Women
of the lesser nobility 8. Royal inquests and the power of noblewomen: the
Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis de XII Comitatibus of 1185
Conclusion Appendix one: catalogue of seals from the twelfth and early
thirteenth centuries Appendix two: noblewomen in the Rotuli de Dominabus
Bibliography Index