Noblewomen, aristocracy, and power in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm / Susan M. Johns.

By:

Johns, Susan M [author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Gender in historyPublisher: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2003Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1417590548
9781417590544
9781847790538
1847790534
9781781700280
1781700281

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Noblewomen, aristocracy, and power in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm.DDC classification:

306/.0941 22

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HQ1599.E5 J64 2003eb

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15.70

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

Power and portrayal -- Patronage and power -- Countesses -- Witnessing -- Countergifts and affidation -- Seals -- Women of the lesser nobility -- Royal inquests and the power of noblewomen : the Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis de XII Comitatibus of 1185.

Summary: This is a study of noblewomen in 12th-century England and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. It offers a reconceptualization of women's role in aristocratic society, and in doing so suggests original ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high Middle Ages.

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Based on the author's doctoral dissertation (Ph. D. : University of Cardiff).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This is a study of noblewomen in 12th-century England and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. It offers a reconceptualization of women's role in aristocratic society, and in doing so suggests original ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high Middle Ages.