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

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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 o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jasperse, Jitske (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Series:Gender and power in the premodern world.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Matilda, > Duchess, consort of Henry, Duke of Saxony, > 1156-1189.
Power (Social sciences) > Europe > History > To 1500.
Sex role > Europe > History > To 1500.
Women > Europe > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Personal belongings > Europe > History > To 1500.
Material culture > Europe > History > To 1500.
Women > Europe > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : material culture and performance of power
  • Staging the bride and her treasure
  • Small items making big impressions : coins and seals
  • Devotion and dynasty on parchment
  • Trappings vested with power
  • Epilogue : materializing power and its afterlife.

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