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

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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Main Author: Jasperse, Jitske (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Series:Gender and power in the premodern world.
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Summary: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 official documentary record. It is especially through the visual record of material culture that we can hear female voices, allowing us to forge an alternative way toward rethinking assumptions about power for sparsely-documented elite women.
Item Description:Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Physical Description:1 online resource (144 pages): illustrations, maps.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781641891462
Access:Open Access