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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Hoofdauteur: Jasperse, Jitske (Auteur)
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Reeks:Gender and power in the premodern world.
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • 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.