{"product_id":"aristocratic-women-in-medieval-france-paperback-softback-9780812217001","title":"Aristocratic Women in Medieval France (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812217001","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAristocratic Women in Medieval France\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTheodore Evergates (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812217001\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 October 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Gender studies and revisionist scholarship at its best. Presenting hard facts of solid research, this elegantly written volume turns upside down prejudices and idÉes reÇues concerning society, family, and women in the Middle Ages.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Medieval Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWere 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 than three decades ago and still widely accepted. In \u003ci\u003eAristocratic Women in Medieval France\u003c\/i\u003e another model is put forth: women of the landholding elite-from countesses down to the wives of ordinary knights-had considerable rights, and exercised surprising power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe authors of the volume offer five case studies of women from the mid-eleventh through the thirteenth centuries, and from regions as diverse as Blois-Chartres, Champagne, Flanders, and Occitania. They show not only the diversity of life experiences these women enjoyed but the range of social and political roles open to them. The ecclesiastical and secular sources they mine confirm that women were regarded as full members of both their natal and affinal families, were never excluded from inheriting and controlling property, and did not have their share of family property limited to dowries. Women across France exchanged oaths for fiefs and assumed responsibilities for enfeoffed knights. As feudal lords, they settled disputes involving vassals, fortified castles, and even led troops into battle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAristocratic Women in Medieval France\u003c\/i\u003e clearly shows that it is no longer possible to depict well-born women as powerless in medieval society. Demonstrating the importance of aristocratic women in a period during which they have been too long assumed to have lacked influence, it forces us to reframe our understanding of the high Middle Ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e -Kimberly A. LoPrete Theodore Evergates \u003cbr\u003e 1. Adela of Blois: Familial Alliances and Female Lordship \u003cbr\u003e -Kimberly A. LoPrete \u003cbr\u003e 2. Aristocratic Women in the Chartrain \u003cbr\u003e -Amy Livingstone \u003cbr\u003e 3. Aristocratic Women in the County of Champagne\u003cbr\u003e -Theodore Evergates \u003cbr\u003e 4. Countesses as Rulers in Flanders\u003cbr\u003e -Karen S. Nicholas \u003cbr\u003e 5. Women, Poets, and Politics in Occitania \u003cbr\u003e -Fredric L. Cheyette \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555678712088,"sku":"9780812217001","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/aristocratic-women-in-medieval-france-paperback-softback-9780812217001","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}