Gender, nation and conquest in the high Middle Ages : Nest of Deheubarth /

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This book is an account of noblewomen in Wales in the high Middle Ages, focusing on one particular case-study, Nest of Deheubarth. A key figure in one of the most notorious and portentous abductions of the middle ages, this 'Helen of Wales' was both mistress of Henry I and ancestress of a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Johns, Susan M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York [New York] : Manchester University Press, 2013.
Series:Gender in history.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nest, > active 1100-1120 > Influence.
Nobility > Wales > History > To 1500.
Women > Wales > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Wales > History > 1063-1284.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Abduction, conquest and gender
  • Gerald of Wales, Nest, gender and power
  • Charters and contexts : gender, women and power
  • Rediscovering Nest in the early modern period
  • Remaking Nest : eighteenth- and nineteenth-century views
  • Constructing Nest in twentieth and twenty-first centuries
  • Constructing beauty, constructing gender.

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