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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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2020
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| Series: | Gender and power in the premodern world.
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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.